50 Centavos Oro first issue

The Banco Central de la República Dominicana began issuing its own currency in 1947, replacing the notes of the Banco de Reservas. This 50 Centavos Oro belongs to a short-lived series tied to the final years of the Trujillo dictatorship — Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in May 1961, and the political upheaval that followed disrupted normal banking operations and accelerated the replacement of several circulating series.

The "Oro" designation was a holdover from earlier monetary conventions linking the Dominican peso to a gold standard that was no longer practically operative by this date.