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1000 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1956-1958 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Black and gray intaglio print on white paper, with an orange circular seal overprint reading CIUDAD TRUJILLO / DISTRITO NACIONAL / REPUBLICA DOMINICANA at center. The central vignette presents the Primada de América — the Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in Santo Domingo — rendered in fine line engraving. Denomination and bank title legends appear in the surrounding border, with the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green intaglio on white paper with an intricate guilloche underprint incorporating repeated REPUBLICA DOMINICANA microtext. A left-of-center circular vignette contains a classical Liberty head in left-facing profile with a feathered headdress, inscribed LIBERTAD along the headband. To the right, a second circular vignette carries the Dominican Republic Coat of Arms with the motto DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD and the inscription REPUBLICA DOMINICANA below. Large denomination numerals 1000 appear in each corner, with MIL in bold letterpress at both sides, and MIL PESOS ORO along the lower border. The printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. is present at the bottom margin. |
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The Banco Central de la República Dominicana was only established in 1947, replacing the currency board arrangement that had kept Dominican monetary policy effectively under U.S. influence since the 1905 customs receivership. By the mid-1950s, Trujillo's government was issuing high-denomination notes like this one partly to finance the regime's ambitious public works program and partly to project an image of institutional modernity. The 1000 Pesos Oro sat at the top of the series.
ABNC handled the full production in New York. High-denomination notes from this Trujillo-era series are genuinely scarce in circulation grades — most were held by the state or financial institutions and either repatriated or destroyed after the 1961 assassination and subsequent monetary restructuring.