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40 Pesos
| Issuer | Comisión de Hacienda, República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Currency | Peso (1844-1897) |
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| Protection type | Handstamp, Official seal |
| Protection description | Circular black handstamp applied to upper left of reverse; red oval official treasury seal applied to lower centre of reverse |
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The Comisión de Hacienda issues of 1848 came during one of the most precarious stretches of Dominican independence — the young republic, founded just four years earlier, was simultaneously managing the threat of Haitian reconquest and an almost total absence of functioning monetary infrastructure. Paper currency was a necessity born of fiscal desperation, not policy confidence.
The handstamp and official seal serving as primary security features reflect the colonial-era authentication habits the republic inherited rather than any developed anti-counterfeiting capability. Few examples of this series have survived in any condition, a predictable outcome for emergency paper circulating through a country at near-constant military alert in the late 1840s.