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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Black on blue underprint. Cherub vignettes at left and right flank a central scene of farmers loading an ox-cart at upper center. Ornate lathe-work border frames the composition throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Green on white. Central guilloche medallion bears the bank name in ornate script, flanked by numeral 50 denominators at left and right. An elaborate geometric lathe-work border of repeating foliate and diamond motifs frames the entire design, with CINCUENTA repeated in the margins. |
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Banco Agrícola was a short-lived Dominican agricultural bank established in the early 1890s to finance rural credit — an ambitious project in a republic perpetually destabilized by debt and political upheaval. The American Bank Note Company contract reflects the period norm for Latin American issuers seeking internationally credible engraving; ABNC's New York shop produced the full Banco Agrícola series under what appears to have been a single print run.
Whether significant quantities of the 50 Pesos actually reached agricultural borrowers is doubtful. The bank's operational lifespan was brief, and high-denomination notes from institutions this small typically saw restricted use before the issuer collapsed or was absorbed.