50 Centavos Banco de la Compañia de Crédito de Puerto Plata

The Banco de la Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata was one of several short-lived private banks chartered in the Dominican Republic during the 1880s, a period when the country had no central bank and commercial credit institutions filled the vacuum with their own fiduciary issues. Puerto Plata, as the republic's principal northern port, had enough merchant capital to sustain such an institution — briefly.

The American Bank Note Company printing credit places this squarely in the tier of regionally ambitious but financially fragile Caribbean issuers who contracted New York engravers to lend their notes an air of solvency the underlying institution couldn't always guarantee.