25 Centavos Oro

The Banco Central de la República Dominicana had only been operating for about a decade when this note was issued — the bank was founded in 1947, ending a long period of monetary dependence on U.S. dollar circulation that had persisted since the early twentieth century. The "Oro" designation reflected a formal peg to gold, a convention the Dominican Republic maintained in its currency law even as the practical link to metal had long since become nominal.

1961 is a loaded year for this series: Trujillo was assassinated in May, and notes bearing the institutional framework he had shaped were already circulating when his thirty-one-year regime collapsed.