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50 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Peso oro (1937-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the Basílica Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia rendered in detailed intaglio engraving, flanked by guilloche underprint panels in the background. The Banco Central coat of arms is positioned at left, with the issuer name arched along the upper margin and the face value expressed in numerals at all four corners and in words across the upper register. A further denomination statement in both words and numerals appears to the left of the central vignette, accompanied by the legal tender clause along the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | the coat of arms visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The Dominican Republic's relationship with monetary stability in the mid-1990s was turbulent enough that the central bank was issuing multiple series in close succession, adjusting security specifications each time. Oberthur's Rennes facility handled a significant portion of Francophone and Caribbean currency production during this period, and the Dominican relationship with the printer stretched across several denominations and dates.
P#149 sits in a transitional run — the watermark and embedded thread combination here predates the more sophisticated features introduced later in the decade as counterfeiting pressure on Dominican pesos intensified regionally.