5 Pesos Oro

The three signature combinations on P#72 map almost exactly onto the Trujillo dictatorship's final years — the 1961 series ending just months before Rafael Trujillo's assassination in May of that year. Manuel V. Ramos and José A. Quezada signed into a political vacuum; the regime collapsed before the series was fully distributed, leaving portions of the D800001–E400000 run with unusually low circulation exposure.

ABNC produced this series during a period when the Dominican Republic maintained a strict peso oro–U.S. dollar parity, enforced since 1947. That fixed rate gave the central bank little room for monetary maneuver, which is partly why the physical notes changed so little across five years and three signature pairs.