Catalog
10 Pesos Iglesia de Boyá
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ★ REPUBLICA DOMINICANA ★ 2000 3.136 grs. ★ DIEZ PESOS ★ .9999 (Translation: Dominican Republic Ten Pesos) |
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The Iglesia de Boyá, located in the municipality of Monte Plata, is widely considered the oldest surviving church in the Americas still standing on its original foundations — a claim that puts it in direct competition with several other colonial-era structures across the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic has returned to it repeatedly as a subject for commemorative issues, treating it as a fixed point of national historical identity rather than a rotating theme.
The .9999 fineness is atypical for a circulating-denomination commemorative of this size; most regional gold issues of the period settled at .900.