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2000 Pesos Oro Millennium
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Peso oro (1937-date) |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined portraits of national anthem lyricist Emilio Prud'Homme and composer José Reyes occupy the right portion of the note against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the red bank coat of arms at left and a central Millennium logo marking the year 2000. The face value appears numerically in the upper corners and in full letters across the vignette, while two black serial numbers — one in ascending-size format at lower left, one printed vertically at right, each with a two-letter prefix — flank a tactile relief element at left for the visually impaired. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The 2000 Pesos Oro was issued specifically to mark the millennium, making it a one-year commemorative rather than a continuation of a standing denomination series. BA International — the successor identity of the British American Bank Note Company — had been the Dominican Republic's printer of choice for much of the late twentieth century, and this note falls within that long contractual relationship. The 2000 denomination itself had no prior history in Dominican currency; it was created for this issue alone.
Security provision is modest for the period — watermark and thread only, without optical variable ink or other features that were already becoming standard on high-value notes by 2000.