2 Pesos Fuertes

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 Much of it was withdrawn or destroyed when the annexation collapsed following the War of Restoration, which began in 1863 and ended Spanish rule by 1865.