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25 Centavos El Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata

25 Centavos (El Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata) - obverse25 Centavos (El Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Dominican RepublicDominican Republic (1844-date)
Issuing entity Banco de la Compania de Credito de Puerto Plata
Period Second Republic (1863-1916)
Type Local banknotes
Year 1880
Value 25 Centavos (0.25)
Currency Peso, Decimal (1877-1905)
Composition Paper
Size 105 × 57 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
561334
References P# S101
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Series: Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata

Obverse

Dark blue printing on green underprint.
Christopher Columbus on left.
Issuer name on top; face value in numbers on all four corners and center right; in letters on lower right; also in numbers and letters repeated along all edges.
Series 1 letter on center, red serial #s 6 digits on right edge; Issuing location with space to hand fill date, on lower left. Space for two signatures with titles on lower zone.
Printer name on bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
25
EL BANCO DE LA Compañía de Crédito de
PUERTO PLATA
038607
Série
A
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A PRESENTACIÓN
Veinticinco Centavos
EN MONEDA CORRIENTE
Puerto Plata, 188
EL TESORERO EL PRESIDENTE
American Bank Note Co. New York

Translation:
The Bank of the Credit Company of Puerto Plata will pay to the bearer on presentation twenty five cents in current currency.
puerto Plata, 188_
The Treasurer, the President.

Reverse

Dark green printing.
Dominican coat of arms on lower center, flanked by the face value in numbers. Text on upper center, printer name on top.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK
ESTE BILLETE SE
ADMITE POR EL VALOR QUE
REPRESENTA COMO MONEDA
LEGAL, EN LAS OFICINAS
FISCALES DEL CIBAO
25
DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD

Translation:
This banknote is admitted by the value that it represents as legal currency at the Cibao fiscal offices
God, Homeland, Liberty

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), United States (1795-date)

Comments

El Cibao is a region on Dominican Republic, on north zone, including 14 provinces, being Puerto Plata capital of one of them, and main sea harbor of the zone.

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Date No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC References
ND (1880)  Issued note
ND (1880)  40 000 P# S101r
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
Remainder; unsigned, Incomplete year as "188 "
ND (1880)  P# S101s
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
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