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2 Pesos / 2 Dollars
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Santo Domingo |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print over green and orange guilloche underprint, with bilingual text in Spanish and English throughout. A seated allegorical female figure appears at right, holding a branch, with the issuer's name across the top, the issuing location and date at upper right, and the face value rendered numerically in the lower left and both right corners, and in letters at lower center. Two black manuscript signatures with printed titles appear at the bottom, a single-letter series designation appears at center left and right, and five-digit red serial numbers are printed at lower left and right; a red diagonal "SPECIMEN" overprint cancels the signature area. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is centred on the Dominican coat of arms, flanked by the face value in numerals at all four corners and on either side of the arms. The issuer's name appears in Spanish above the arms and in English below, with the national motto on a ribbon across the shield. The printer's imprint is at the bottom. |
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The Banco Nacional de Santo Domingo was a short-lived institution operating under a Dominican-American financial arrangement that preceded the formal U.S. customs receivership era. By 1912, Santo Domingo's public finances were already heavily entangled with American interests following the 1907 debt convention, and this dual-denomination note — payable in both pesos and dollars at par — reflects that dependency directly in its typography rather than through any symbolic gesture.
ABNC produced the plates in New York, as with virtually all Dominican paper of this period. The dollar equivalence printed on the face was a practical necessity, not a courtesy — American creditors and merchants required it.