The manufacture of tickets and coins They circulate in the Dominican Republic, it is a process that transcends borders and reflects the country’s economic interconnection with the international money printing industry. Each denomination is produced under safety and quality standards, guaranteeing its durability and resistance to falsifications.
For the 2024 series, the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) selected Two specialized houses in the printing of tickets after evaluating nine international companies:
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RD $ 50.00 pesos: Chilean currency house, Chile.
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RD $ 100.00, RD $ 200.00, RD $ 500.00 and RD $ 2,000.00: Giesecke + Devrient, Currency Technology, GmbH, Germany.
These tickets are manufactured with cotton substratewhich not only provides greater durability, but also allows the implementation of advanced safety elements, such as color change inks, water marks and tactile reliefs.
The choice of International renowned suppliersensures that the Dominican currency continues to comply with the highest quality standards, aligning with the best global practices in paper money production.
Origin of coins
The process of coinage of the coins Dominican is also carried out by different Currency houses Worldwide, selected based on their experience and technical capacity:
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RD $ 1.00 and RD $ 5.00: Mennica Polska, SA, Poland.
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RD $ 10.00: National Currency and Timbre Factory, Spain.
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RD $ 25.00: Monnaie de Paris, France.
Each of these factories uses avant -garde technologies to ensure the durability and authenticity of the coins in circulation.
The materials that are used to do Dominican coins They include: gold yellow vessel electro, multi -coated steel layer with brass, silver gray ring in cupronis and gold yellow nucleus in bronze to aluminum and cupronisquel silver gray color.
The safety and origin of the RD $ symbol
The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic maintains rigorous control in the money productionmaking periodic adjustments in the Security elements of the Tickets and coins. In addition, it supervises that printing processes and coinage meet the highest international standards.
The RD $ symbol is established in a law adopted in 1947, during the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina: the Monetary law 1528.
In article 1 of the chapter referring to the monetary unit of the country, this law indicates the monetary unit of the Dominican Republic It will be the ‘gold weight’, equivalent to eight hundred eighty -eight thousand six hundred and seventy -one millionth (0.888671) of fine gold gram, whose symbol will be as follows: RD $.
This article adds that the weight will be divided into one hundred equal parts called cents. States that the symbol of said penny will be “ct.”. Sixty -three years later, with the constitutional reform of 2010, the gold weight was called Dominican weight.
As of 2011, the Tickets issued They were replaced the name of gold pesos by Dominican pesos, in compliance with the provisions of article 229 of said constitutional reform.
