Catalog
2 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Intendencia de Sto Domingo |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-printed note with a rectangular border of fine guilloche work enclosing the central text field. The heading reads INTENDENCIA DE STO DOMINGO in a bold arc at the top, with SERIE B indicated at the left and the serial number at the right, flanking a small central coat of arms vignette. The denomination DOS PESOS FUERTES is set in large bold letterpress below, followed by several lines of manuscript text referencing the Dirección General de Hacienda Pública and dated Santo Domingo 1º de Mayo de 1862, with three handwritten signatures for El Subgestor, El Contador, and El Tesorero. A circular red official stamp is visible at the upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on unadorned paper with heavy fold lines and age toning throughout. A circular black official stamp impression is visible near the upper right area, and a cancellation hole is punched at the upper left corner, consistent with period redemption or cancellation practice. |
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The Intendencia de Santo Domingo issued these notes during a particularly unstable stretch of Dominican history — the country had voluntarily reannexed itself to Spain in 1861, and by 1862 the colonial treasury was scrambling to manage local expenditure with paper instruments that the population had little reason to trust. The Intendencia functioned as the Spanish crown's fiscal arm on the island, and these pesos fuertes were essentially administrative scrip rather than a product of any formal banking structure.
The series is rare. Much of it was withdrawn or destroyed when the annexation collapsed following the War of Restoration, which began in 1863 and ended Spanish rule by 1865.