The International Year of the Child designation on this issue refers to the UN initiative launched in 1979 — the tenth anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child — making the 1982 strike a belated commemorative rather than a timely one. The Dominican Republic issued several silver commemoratives through this period as hard-currency earners, with pieces more likely to have ended up in collector sets than in domestic circulation.
The International Year of the Child designation on this issue refers to the UN initiative launched in 1979 — the tenth anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child — making the 1982 strike a belated commemorative rather than a timely one. The Dominican Republic issued several silver commemoratives through this period as hard-currency earners, with pieces more likely to have ended up in collector sets than in domestic circulation.