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20 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Peso oro (1937-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central intaglio vignette presents the Altar de la Patria (Altar of the Fatherland), a neoclassical monumental structure rendered in fine line engraving with a standing figure at its entrance, captioned "ALTAR DE LA PATRIA" beneath. The national coat of arms appears as a guilloche underprint to the left, framed by floral ornaments and geometric lathe-work borders, with the denomination numeral "20" in gold at the lower corners and right side. Two signature lines at the bottom correspond to the Gobernador del Banco Central and the Secretario de Estado de Finanzas. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Harrison & Sons held the Dominican Republic contract through much of the late Cold War period, and this 1990 issue came during a particularly unstable stretch for the peso oro — inflation had been running at triple digits since the mid-1980s, eroding real purchasing power so rapidly that a 20-peso note was worth a fraction of its face value by the time any given print run finished circulating.
The watermark remains the sole mechanical security feature here, a relatively thin specification for the period — Harrison was capable of far more sophisticated work, and the austere security profile reflects the economics of printing for a currency under severe inflationary pressure rather than any technical limitation.