10 Centavos Restoration of the Republic

The 1963 date marks the centennial of the restoration of Dominican independence from Spanish re-annexation — a brief and often overlooked episode in which Spain reacquired the republic in 1861 under President Pedro Santana, only to be expelled by guerrilla resistance in 1865. The commemorative series issued that year was among the last silver coinage the Dominican Republic would produce before the transition to copper-nickel in subsequent decades.