10 Centavos

The Banco Central de la República Dominicana, established only in 1947, was still a relatively young institution when this copper-nickel series entered production. The switch from the earlier silver-content issues reflected a broader regional shift driven by rising metal prices in the 1960s — the same pressures that forced similar recompositions across Latin American mints during the decade. Dominican coinage of this period was struck under contract arrangements that sometimes shifted production between facilities, a detail that can affect surface quality and die alignment across the run.