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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Comisión de Hacienda, Gobierno Provisorio de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1865 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note of austere design, printed in black on plain paper with a decorative floral and geometric border running the full perimeter. The national motto DIOS, PATRIA Y LIBERTAD and the issuer title REPUBLICA DOMINICANA appear at the top, with the denomination VEINTE PESOS repeated vertically in the left and right margins. The central text field carries the authorizing decree of the Provisional Government dated 9 January, the place and date of issue Santiago, February 14, 1865, and the issuing authority La Comisión de Hacienda, followed by a manuscript handwritten signature and an official ink stamp; the series designation 1ª Serie G and a manuscript serial number appear above the decree text. |
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| Obverse lettering | DIOS, PATRIA Y LIBERTAD REPUBLICA DOMINICANA VEINTE PESOS En virtud del decreto del Gobierno Provisorio, fecha 9 de Enero, circulará el presente billete por el valor de VEINTE PESOS que la Nacion garantiza. Santiago, Febrero 14 de 1865, La Comision de Hacienda, (Translation: God, Country and Freedom Dominican Republic Twenty Pesos By virtue of the decree of the Provisional Government, dated January 9, this bill will circulate for the value of Twenty Pesos that the Nation guarantees. Santiago, February 14, 1865, The Finance Commission,) |
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The Gobierno Provisorio existed for a single turbulent year. The Dominican Republic had voluntarily reannexed itself to Spain in 1861 — a unique episode in Caribbean history — and the War of Restoration that followed ended Spanish control in 1865, leaving a provisional government scrambling to establish basic state functions, currency among them. The Comisión de Hacienda notes were emergency instruments, not the product of an established central bank.
Printing details for this series remain poorly documented, and attribution to a specific press is unconfirmed. Surviving examples in any grade are genuinely uncommon, given both the political instability of the issuing authority and the brevity of the regime that put them into circulation.