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1 Franco
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1891 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | UNO FRANCO · 1891 · LIBERTAD TASSET |
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The Dominican Republic's franco-denominated coinage had a short and troubled run. Introduced in 1891 under President Ulises Heureaux — known as "Lilís" — the currency reform that produced this coin was part of a broader effort to modernize the republic's monetary system along French metric lines. Heureaux's government was simultaneously accumulating catastrophic foreign debt, and within a decade the country was effectively insolvent.
KM#11 was struck in Paris, the only facility equipped to produce coinage to the required standard at the time.