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10 Pesos Iglesia de Bánica

Issuer Dominican Republic (1844-date)
Year 2000
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Value 10 Pesos
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Bánica is a small town in the Elías Piña province, pressed hard against the Haitian border in one of the most economically isolated corners of Hispaniola. The church commemorated here survived the brutal 1937 Parsley Massacre — Trujillo's systematic slaughter of Haitian migrants along that same frontier — though the surrounding region was left deeply scarred.

The 2000 series of which this piece forms a part was struck to highlight endangered or historically neglected Dominican architectural heritage, a program as much political as cultural given the country's complicated relationship with its own colonial past.

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