{"product_id":"dominican-republic-p-189a-50-pesos-dominicanos-2024-2025-new-central-bank-logo-1","title":"Dominican Republic P-189j 50 Pesos 2024—Oldest Cathedral in The Americas","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBanknote Characteristics\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Obverse — purple and violet with some blue tones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFront:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathedral_of_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_la_Menor\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCatedral Primada de América (Santa María la Menor)\u003c\/a\u003e, Santo Domingo — the first cathedral built in the Americas; mahogany blossom (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swietenia_mahagoni\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecaoba\u003c\/a\u003e); Central Bank arms; new BCRD tower-top logo upper right; tactile mark for the visually impaired upper left\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBack:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Altagracia\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBasílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia\u003c\/a\u003e, Salvaleon de Higüey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWatermark:\u003c\/b\u003e Not specified\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eComposition:\u003c\/b\u003e Paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 158 × 67 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIssuing entity:\u003c\/b\u003e Banco Central de la República Dominicana\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/b\u003e Casa de Moneda de Chile (CMCh), Santiago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDemonetized:\u003c\/b\u003e No — current legal tender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSignatures:\u003c\/b\u003e Gov. Héctor Valdez Albizu; Minister of Finance José Manuel Vicente Dubocq\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCurrency:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_peso\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePeso Dominicano\u003c\/a\u003e (2011–date)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eReferences:\u003c\/b\u003e P-189j; TBB B727g\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Dominican Republic\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCapital:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santo_Domingo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSanto Domingo\u003c\/a\u003e — city pop. ~1.1 million; metro pop. ~3.3 million\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePopulation:\u003c\/b\u003e ~11.3 million (UN 2024) — similar to Ohio or Belgium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eArea:\u003c\/b\u003e 48,671 km² (18,792 mi²) — roughly the size of Nova Scotia or Slovakia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGDP per capita at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purchasing_power_parity\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePPP\u003c\/a\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e ~$24,000 USD (IMF 2024) — ranks ~90th out of 193 globally; the largest economy in the Caribbean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMain exports:\u003c\/b\u003e Medical instruments, gold, cigars, cocoa, bananas, tourism services\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBorders:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haiti\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c\/a\u003e (shares the island of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispaniola\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHispaniola\u003c\/a\u003e); otherwise surrounded by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean_Sea\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCaribbean Sea\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAtlantic Ocean\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOfficial\/spoken language:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Spanish\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDominican Spanish\u003c\/a\u003e (~100%); \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haitian_Creole\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaitian Creole\u003c\/a\u003e spoken by a significant Haitian immigrant community (~5–10%)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSovereignty:\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTaíno\u003c\/a\u003e indigenous settlement — Hispaniola inhabited for thousands of years before European contact\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpanish colony (1492–1795) — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Columbus\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eColumbus\u003c\/a\u003e landed on Hispaniola in 1492; Santo Domingo became the first permanent European city in the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrench and Spanish partition (1697–1795) — western third ceded to France (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Domingue\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSaint-Domingue\u003c\/a\u003e, later Haiti)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHaitian rule (1822–1844) — the entire island unified under Haiti for 22 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFirst Dominican Republic\u003c\/a\u003e (1844–1861) — independence declared from Haiti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpanish annexation (1861–1865) — briefly re-incorporated into Spain; reversed after the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Restoration_War\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWar of Restoration\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS occupation (1916–1924) — American military administration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafael_Trujillo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTrujillo dictatorship\u003c\/a\u003e (1930–1961) — one of the longest and most brutal dictatorships in Latin American history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourth_Republic_(Dominican_Republic)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFourth Republic\u003c\/a\u003e (1966–date) — \u003ci\u003ethis note issued during this period\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDominican Republic Unfiltered\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dominican Republic shares one island with Haiti — and the contrast between the two halves is one of the starkest on earth. Same island, same colonial starting point, radically different outcomes: the DR has a GDP per capita roughly eight times that of Haiti. The border is one of the most economically asymmetric land borders in the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanto Domingo, shown on this note, was the first European city founded in the Americas — predating Havana, Mexico City, and Lima by decades. The \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonial_City_of_Santo_Domingo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eColonial Zone\u003c\/a\u003e is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and contains the first cathedral, first university, first hospital, and first paved road in the New World.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafael_Trujillo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRafael Trujillo\u003c\/a\u003e ruled for 31 years and renamed the capital city after himself (\u003ci\u003eCiudad Trujillo\u003c\/i\u003e). He ordered the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parsley_massacre\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eParsley Massacre\u003c\/a\u003e of 1937, in which Dominican soldiers killed an estimated 20,000 Haitian migrants — using the Spanish word for parsley (\u003ci\u003eperejil\u003c\/i\u003e) as a shibboleth to identify Haitians by their accent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe DR is the most visited country in the Caribbean, receiving over 10 million tourists a year — more than Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico combined. Tourism accounts for roughly 17% of GDP.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball_in_the_Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBaseball\u003c\/a\u003e is the national religion. The DR produces more MLB players per capita than any other country — over 100 Dominicans are on active MLB rosters in a typical season, from a country of 11 million people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Oldest Cathedral in the Americas\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe building on the obverse of this note is not just old — it is the \u003cb\u003eoldest surviving cathedral in the Western Hemisphere.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathedral_of_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_la_Menor\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSanta María la Menor\u003c\/a\u003e was begun in 1512 and completed in 1541, thirty years before the Spanish founded St. Augustine in Florida — the oldest city in the continental United States. It has survived hurricanes, pirate raids (including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Drake\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFrancis Drake\u003c\/a\u003e, who sacked Santo Domingo in 1586 and used the cathedral as his headquarters), earthquakes, and five centuries of Caribbean weather. It still holds Mass. \u003cb\u003ePlacing it on the 50-peso note is a statement of civilisational priority:\u003c\/b\u003e the Dominican Republic was not a backwater of the colonial world — it was its first capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe back: a basilica built where the Virgin appeared\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Altagracia\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBasílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia\u003c\/a\u003e in Higüey is the spiritual heart of the Dominican Republic. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Lady_of_Altagracia\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOur Lady of Altagracia\u003c\/a\u003e — \u003ci\u003eLa Altagracia\u003c\/i\u003e — is the patron saint of the country, and her feast day on 21 January draws over a million pilgrims annually to this basilica. The modern structure, completed in 1971 and designed by French architects \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Jacques_Dunoyer_de_Segonzac\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDunoyer de Segonzac\u003c\/a\u003e and Henri Capron, is one of the most architecturally distinctive churches in Latin America — its soaring parabolic arch visible from miles away. \u003cb\u003eFront and back of this note together tell the full arc of Dominican faith:\u003c\/b\u003e the colonial cathedral where it began, and the modern basilica where it lives today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat makes P-189j different\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 2024-dated issue (released 2025) is the latest in a long-running series — but it carries a specific distinguishing feature: the addition of the \u003cb\u003eBCRD tower-top logo\u003c\/b\u003e in the upper right of the obverse, absent from the P-189 issues prior to 2017.  It is printed by \u003cb\u003eCasa de Moneda de Chile\u003c\/b\u003e, one of four different security printers used across the P-189 series (alongside De La Rue, Giesecke+Devrient, and the Polish Security Printing Works) — making printer identification a genuine collecting sub-specialty within this type. The 2025 release date makes this among the freshest Dominican notes in circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOwn the first city of the Americas\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a UNC note from the newest issue of one of the Caribbean's most historically loaded denominations. \u003cb\u003eTwo cathedrals, five centuries of history, one island that changed the world.\u003c\/b\u003e The mahogany blossom in the corner is the national flower — the same tree that furnished the great houses of Europe and was nearly logged to extinction in the process. Even the flora on this note has a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColumbus landed here first. The New World started here. 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