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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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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Dominican Republic is prominently displayed at the center of the obverse, featuring a quartered shield with a central cross, flanked by laurel and palm branches, and surmounted by a ribbon inscribed DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD. A banner below the shield bears the legend REPUBLICA DOMINICANA. The date 2000 appears in the lower field, with the denomination DIEZ PESOS along the lower rim, all separated by five-pointed stars. The weight 2.45 grs. is inscribed on the left and the fineness .9999 on the right, both reading vertically along the inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.