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2 Pesos El Banco de La Compañia de Crédito de Puerto Plata

2 Pesos (El Banco de La Compañia de Crédito de Puerto Plata) - obverse2 Pesos (El Banco de La Compañia 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 2 Pesos
Currency Peso, Decimal (1877-1905)
Composition Paper
Size 152 × 69 mm
Shape Rectangular
Issued 1880
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
561336
References P# S104
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Series: Banco de La Compañía de Crédito de Puerto Plata

Obverse

Blue and brown printing on light blue andd light brown underprint.
Allegory on left, representing Literature.
Issuer name on top left and center; face value in numbers on all four corners, and on center, as underprint; in letters at center, and at lower center as underprint.
Black series 1 letter on lower center, red serial #s 6 digits on center right, Issuing location and space for hand write date; 3 first digits of year printed on lower center and right. 2 spaces for signatures, with titles above, on lower zone.
Printer name on bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
2 EL BANCO DE LA Compañía de Crédito
de PUERTO PLATA
PAGARÁ
al portador Á presentacion
DOS PESOS
EN MONEDA CORRIENTE
Série
E

016233
Puerto Plata _____188_
EL TESORERO EL PRESIDENTE
American Bank Note Co. N. Y.

Translation:
The Bank of the Credit Company of Puerto Plata will pay to the bearer on presentation two Pesos in current currency.
Puerto Plata ____ 188_
The Treasurer, the President.

Reverse

Blue printing.
Dominican coat of arms on left, text on center and right. Face value in numbers on all four corners. Printer name on bottom.

Script: Latin

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

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

Printer

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

Comments

50,000, 2 pesos banknotes were printed by the American Bank Note Company, New York.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC References
ND (1880)  Issued note (Not listed on Krause).
ND (1880)  P# S104r
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
Remainder; Incomplete year as "188__". unsigned.
ND (1880)  P# S104s
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
Specimen; incomplete year as "188__", unsigned.

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