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10 Centavos Juan Pablo Duarte
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PRIMER CENTENARIO DE LA MUERTE DE DUARTE DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD REPUBLICA DOMINICANA 1876-1976 (Translation: 100th anniversary of the death of Duarte God Fatherland Liberty Dominican Republic) |
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Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the three founding fathers of Dominican independence in 1844, spent much of his adult life in exile — expelled by the very republic he helped create after rivals outmaneuvered him politically within months of liberation from Haiti. He died in Caracas in 1876, essentially forgotten by the government he founded. His rehabilitation into national iconography came gradually, and by the 1970s his face had become standard on small-denomination coinage under Joaquín Balaguer's administration.