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25 Centavos El Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata
| Issuer | El Banco de la Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Value | 25 Centavos |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 EL BANCO DE LA Compañía de Crédito de PUERTO PLATA Série A PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A PRESENTACIÓN Veinticinco Centavos EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Puerto Plata, 188 EL TESORERO EL PRESIDENTE American Bank Note Co. New York (Translation: The Bank of the Credit Company of Puerto Plata will pay to the bearer on presentation twenty five cents in current currency. Puerto Plata, 188_ The Treasurer, the President.) |
| Reverse description | Dark green letterpress printing with the Dominican coat of arms as a central vignette at lower center, flanked on either side by the face value '25' in numerals. A text panel at upper center states the note's acceptance as legal currency at the Cibao fiscal offices, with the printer's imprint 'American Bank Note Company, New York' running along the top margin. |
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El Banco de la Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata was one of several private commercial banks chartered in the Dominican Republic during the brief liberal banking experiment of the late 1870s and early 1880s, before the state moved to consolidate monetary authority. Puerto Plata, a northern port town with strong tobacco export ties, had genuine commercial weight at the time — this wasn't a vanity institution.
The American Bank Note Company produced the plates, as it did for most Latin American private bank issues of the period. At the fractional 25 centavos denomination, notes like this saw hard daily use and rarely survived in any condition.