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10 Centavos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL de la REPUBLICA DOMINICANA DIEZ CENTAVOS ORO ESTE BILLETE TIENE FUERZA LIBERATORIA PARA EL PAGO DE TODAS LAS OBLIGACIONES PUBLICAS O PRIVADAS SEGUN EL ART. 5 DE LA LEY MONETARIA BANCO DE RESERVAS DIEZ CENTAVOS ORO BANCO CENTRAL (Translation: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic Ten Cents Oro This note has liberatory force for payment of all obligations, public or private, accordingly to article# 5 of Currency Law Reserves bank Ten cents Oro Central Bank) |
| Reverse description | An Indian head portrait vignette occupies the left side of the note, with the Dominican Republic coat of arms to the right. The issuer's name is inscribed across the top, the denomination in numerals appears at all four corners, and the full face value in both words and figures is centered across the note. |
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The 1961 Dominican Republic issues came at a politically charged moment — Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in May of that year, ending a 31-year dictatorship that had exercised tight control over the central bank and the national currency. Notes issued in 1961 straddle that transition, some entering circulation before his death, some after, under a government scrambling to establish legitimate institutional footing.
The "Oro" designation indicates nominal gold-backing, a legal fiction maintained on Dominican paper currency long after any convertibility was practically available.