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50 Céntimos La Romana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Romana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink on plain cream paper, enclosed within a decorative double-line border with interlaced corner and side ornaments in an Art Nouveau style. The issuer's name appears in the upper portion, followed by rows of small triangular ornamental dividers above and below the large-denomination inscription at centre, with the treasurer's title printed below. A circular municipal rubber stamp is visible at right, and a handwritten signature in blue ink appears in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CÉNTIMOS |
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La Romana's municipal council issued these small-denomination notes during the late 1930s when chronic shortages of low-value coinage plagued the Dominican Republic's provincial towns. Municipal and merchant-issued fractional paper was an improvised but widely tolerated solution — the central government lacked both the infrastructure and the political will to guarantee adequate coin supply to outlying regions at that time.
The Gari Monetary catalog distinguishes a "-B" variety within this type, suggesting at least minor printing or paper differences from a sibling issue — though the specifics of what separates the variants are not always consistently documented across reference sources.