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10 Pesos Iglesia San Lázaro
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Reverse description | A detailed relief rendering of the facade of Iglesia San Lázaro, a colonial-era church, occupies the central field, depicted with its characteristic low-lying stone walls, arched doorways, bell towers, and buttresses. The series title IGLESIAS COLONIALES arcs along the upper periphery as a circumferential legend, while the individual church name IGLESIA SAN LÁZARO curves along the lower periphery, both rendered in raised gold lettering against a frosted field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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San Lázaro church in Santo Domingo, built in the sixteenth century, served the city's leprosy-afflicted population — a segregated community kept at the margins of colonial society. The building survived successive earthquakes, Haitian occupation, and the architectural purges of the Trujillo dictatorship, which remodeled much of the capital's historic core into a showcase for his own regime.
The year 2000 gold issues from the Dominican Republic were part of a jubilee series commemorating national heritage sites. Struck to .9999 fineness rather than the more common .900 used in earlier Dominican gold, the series marked a deliberate shift toward bullion-grade purity.