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2 Centavos Essai
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1878 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral 2 is prominently displayed in the upper central field in large raised characters, with CENTAVOS inscribed below in a straight legend across the middle of the coin. A crossed laurel and palm branch ornament decorates the lower central field. The motto DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by five-pointed stars, and the date 1878 appears in the lower exergual area between two small stars, all within a beaded inner border. |
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The Dominican Republic's 1878 essai coinage was produced in Paris — almost certainly at the Monnaie de Paris — as part of a broader proposal for a new national coinage series that was never adopted for circulation. The country had been through two Spanish annexations, a brief Haitian reunification, and chronic fiscal instability by this point, and foreign mints regularly solicited small nations with pattern proposals that went nowhere.
The two KM references reflect distinct die or metal variations within the same essai program. Neither entered production.