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½ Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Intendencia de Santo Domingo |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Currency | Peso Fuerte (1852-1897) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-black letterpress ink within a decorative typographic border of repeated arch and lozenge motifs, the obverse carries a dual-column heading reading INTENDENCIA and DE S.TO DOMINGO flanking a central vignette, with the denomination MEDIO PESO FUERTE set in bold type below. Manuscript series letter and serial number appear at upper left and right respectively, while a circular red official stamp is struck at centre-right. The lower field contains a printed authorisation text establishing the note as legal tender, dated 1862 and bearing the printed signature of El Intendente. |
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| Obverse lettering | INTENDENCIA DE S.TO DOMINGO MEDIO PESO FUERTE El Intendente |
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The Intendencia de Santo Domingo issued this note during a peculiar interval in Dominican history: the country had voluntarily reannexed itself to Spain in 1861, and by 1862 the colonial administration was scrambling to manage a currency supply that the local economy had never adequately supported. These intendencia notes were a fiscal stopgap, issued under Spanish colonial authority rather than any independent Dominican institution.
The reannexation lasted only until 1865, when a guerrilla campaign — the War of Restoration — expelled the Spanish entirely. Notes issued during this window were rendered administratively obsolete almost immediately, which limits surviving examples to those that escaped redemption or destruction.