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En virtud del decreto del Congreso Nacional de 13 de Mayo de 1853, círcula el presente billete por CUARENTA PESOS nacionales.
La Comision de Hacienda.
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.
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.