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20 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Comisión de Hacienda (Finance Committee), Dominican Republic |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE B 20 CTS. DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD No. 17186 El presente billete circulará en el territorio de la República por el valor de VEINTE CENTAVOS fuertes, que se admitirán en pago de de- rechos de importacion y exporta- cion con la garantía que le pres- ta el decreto de la Subdelegación del Triunvirato, de fecha 29 de JULIO de 1866. La Comisión de Hacienda. VEINTE CENTAVOS (Translation: God, Homeland, Liberty. This banknote will circulate in the territory of the Republic for the value of Twenty strong cents, which will be accepted in payment of import and export duties, with the guarantee provided by the Decree of the Subdelegation of the Triumvirate, dated July 29th., 1866. The Finance Committee. Twenty Cents) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no vignette, text, or overprint of any kind. |
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The Comisión de Hacienda notes of 1866 were emergency fractional currency, issued during one of the most unstable stretches of Dominican political history — the country had only recently expelled Spanish reannexation forces in 1865 after four years of the War of Restoration, leaving the treasury gutted and metallic currency desperately short. Fractional paper was a stopgap, nothing more.
Pick 36 is among the rarest survivors from this series. The notes were never meant to last, and most didn't. Finding one with intact paper is genuinely uncommon.