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500 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 BANCO CENTRAL de la REPUBLICA DOMINICANA 0000000 QUINIENTOS PESOS ORO ESTE BILLETE TIENE FUERZA LIBERATORIA PARA EL PAGO DE TODAS LAS OBLIGACIONES PUBLICAS O PRIVADAS. SANTO DOMINGO DISTRITO NACIONAL REPUBLICA DOMINICANA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic Five Hundred Pesos Oro This note has liberatory force for payment of all debts, public or private. Santo Domingo, National District, Dominican Republic.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA QUINIENTOS 500 DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD QUINIENTOS REPUBLICA DOMINICANA Gobernador del Banco Central Secretario de Estado de Finanzas QUINIENTOS PESOS ORO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. God, Homeland, Liberty Governor of the Central Bank, State Secretary of Finance. Five Hundred Pesos Oro) |
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The 1962 Dominican 500 Pesos Oro is among the highest denominations issued during the immediate post-Trujillo period — Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in May 1961, and the following year was one of severe political instability as the country lurched between provisional governments. High-denomination notes from this transition window circulated in an economy already strained by decades of personalist misrule and the sudden collapse of the machinery that had controlled it.
ABNC's involvement was long-standing with Dominican issues; the engraving quality on this series is notably fine. At 500 Pesos Oro, genuine circulation examples are rare — notes of this value tended to move between institutions rather than through ordinary commerce.