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500 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Printer | United States Banknote Company, New York, United States (1884-1989) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the National Theater (Teatro Nacional) building, framed by guilloche underprint work throughout the note. The Central Bank arms appear to the left, with the issuer's title running along the top margin. Face value numerals occupy all four corners, with the denomination in words along the lower border. |
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| Protection description | Juan Pablo Duarte bust, visible at the right of the obverse when held to light. |
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The United States Banknote Company printed this note in what turned out to be one of its final years of operation — the firm went bankrupt in 1989, just months after this issue. USBANCO had been a significant supplier to Latin American central banks throughout the mid-twentieth century, but by the late 1980s it was losing contracts steadily to De La Rue and ABNC.
The 500 Pesos Oro denomination was a high-value note for the Dominican Republic in 1988, a period of acute inflationary pressure following the peso's collapse against the dollar under the Balaguer administration's currency mismanagement.