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10 Pesos Iglesia San Lazaro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural rendering of the Iglesia San Lázaro (Church of Saint Lazarus) occupies the central field of the reverse, depicted in a slightly elevated three-quarter perspective highlighting the church's low-profile facade, arched doorways, decorative parapet, bell tower, and rounded apse. The legend IGLESIAS COLONIALES curves along the upper rim, while IGLESIA SAN LÁZARO is inscribed along the lower portion of the field in large upright letters. The design is executed in a refined relief against a mirror-polished proof-quality field. |
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San Lázaro is the patron saint of the sick and poor, and his church in Santo Domingo — one of the oldest surviving colonial structures in the Americas — served historically as a leper colony chapel on the outskirts of the original city walls. The 2000 issue falls within a Dominican commemorative silver program that drew heavily on colonial ecclesiastical architecture, most of it concentrated in the UNESCO-designated Colonial City of Santo Domingo founded in 1498.
At 2.45 grams of .9999 fine silver, the striking weight is unusually light for a commemorative, suggesting a piece intended more for the collector market than any ceremonial presentation context.