500 Pesos Oro

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.