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20 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1952 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 VEINTE VEINTE 20 BANCO CENTRAL DE LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA ESTE BILLETE TIENE FUERZA LIBERATORIA PARA EL PAGO DE TODAS LAS OBLIGACIONES PUBLICAS O PRIVADAS 20 VEINTE PESOS ORO CIUDAD TRUJILLO DISTRITO DE SANTO DOMINGO REPUBLICA DOMINICANA TRUJILLO Gobernador del Banco Central Secretario de Estado del Tesoro y Crédito Público VEINTE PESOS ORO 20 20 (Translation: 20 Twenty Twenty 20 Central Bank of the Dominican Republic This bill is dischargeable for the payment of all public or private obligations 20 Twenty pesos oro [gold pesos] Ciudad Trujillo District of Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Trujillo Governor of the Central Bank Secretary of State for the Treasury and Public Credit Twenty pesos oro [gold pesos] 20 20) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse presents a left-facing bust of Liberty at left, a central vignette of the Monument to Peace of Trujillo (later renamed Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration), and the coat of arms of the Dominican Republic at right. The bank title, denomination, and motto inscriptions frame the design, with the printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. at the lower margin. |
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This 1952 issue belongs to the final years of the Trujillo dictatorship's managed currency regime, during which the Banco Central — established only in 1947 — was still consolidating its monopoly over Dominican note issuance. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout this formative period, a relationship common among newly independent or recently restructured central banks in the Caribbean that lacked domestic printing capacity.
Pick 70 is not a rare note, but surviving examples in better grades are less common than the catalog frequency suggests, likely due to heavy commercial use in the Dominican economy during a period of sustained but tightly controlled economic activity under state direction.