10 Pesos Santuario de Higüey

Issued to mark the Jubilee Year 2000, this piece commemorates the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia in Higüey — the spiritual center of Dominican Catholicism and site of an annual January pilgrimage drawing hundreds of thousands of the faithful. The basilica itself, designed by French architects André Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac and Pierre Toutain, was not completed until 1971 after nearly two decades of construction.

The .9999 fineness is notable for a coin of this period from a Caribbean central bank — a specification more commonly associated with bullion programs than commemorative issues.