The Central Bank announces that new bills are being issued to commemorate the new millennium. They will begin circulating towards the end of December. The Monetary Junta has authorized the issuing of a RD$2,000 bill for the first time in the DR. The blue and gray bill features the effigies of the author of the lyrics and score of the National Hymn, Jose Reyes and Emilio Prud-Homme. The bill has a drawing of the façade of the National Theater on the back. A new orange and brown-colored RD$100 peso will be available. It has the effigies of the Founding Fathers, Juan Pablo Duarte, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Ramón Matías Mella. The back shows a drawing of the façade of the Puerta del Conde (where independence from Haiti was first proclaimed). A new green-colored RD$10 bill will also be available, presenting the effigy of Ramón Matías Mella, and on the reverse, a drawing of the monument to the founders of the nation.
