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5 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1978-1988 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Reverse lettering | SERIE 1988 BANCO CENTRAL DE LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA PRESAS HIDROELECTRICAS Y DE RIEGO CINCO PESOS ORO (Translation: Serie 1988 Central Bank of the Dominican Republic Hydroelectric and Irrigation Dams Five Pesos Oro) |
| Signature(s) | 1978 - Fernando Periche Vidal / Victor Gómez Bergés 1980, 1981 & 1982 - Bernardo Vega / Rafael Abinader 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 - Bernardo Vega / Rafael Abinader |
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The "Pesos Oro" denomination name was not decorative — it reflected the Dominican Republic's longstanding legal fiction that the peso carried a gold-equivalent value, a claim that became increasingly strained through the 1980s as the country's foreign debt crisis and IMF negotiations eroded the currency's real purchasing power. By the final years of this series, inflation was accelerating sharply toward the crisis of the early 1990s that would ultimately force a full monetary restructuring.
Thomas De La Rue held the Dominican printing contract across this entire decade-long run. The unchanged P#118 designation across multiple signature combinations means dating an undated example requires cross-referencing the signatory pair against known appointment records.