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2 Pesos / 2 Dollars
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Santo Domingo |
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| Year | 1912 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE SANTO DOMINGO NATIONAL BANK OF SANTO DOMINGO SANTO DOMINGO R.D. 31 DE ENERO DE 1912. SANTO DOMINGO D.R. JANUARY 31ST 1912. PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND SERIE A SERIES A 2 Nº 00000 DOS PESOS ORO AMERICANO O SU EQUIVALENTE TWO DOLLARS CAJERO. CASHIER. PRESIDENT. PRESIDENTE. AMERICAN BANKNOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 BANCO NACIONAL DE SANTO DOMINGO DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD NATIONAL BANK OF SANTO DOMINGO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK. (Translation: God, Homeland, Freedom.) |
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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.