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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional de la República Dominicana |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA UN PESO NOMINAL CUARENTA CENTAVOS FUERTES UN PESO Comisario Administrador Cámara de Comercio 1848 |
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| Reverse lettering | No. En virtud del decreto del Congreso Nacional de 19 de Mayo de 1858, Créese el presente billete por Veinte Pesos VEINTE PESOS |
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The Tesoro Nacional de la República Dominicana began issuing paper currency in 1848 under acute fiscal pressure — the young republic, independent from Haiti only since 1844, had no functioning central bank and no hard currency reserves to speak of. These notes were essentially government drafts backed by little more than political will, issued to pay soldiers and civil servants during a period of near-constant military threat from Haitian forces to the west.
Pick 6 is among the earliest documented Dominican paper issues, making surviving examples genuinely rare. The Dominican treasury of this period kept poor records, and many notes were redeemed, cancelled, or simply lost in the disorder of the 1850s.