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1 Centime Essai
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1807 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | LE GOUVERNMENT DE HAYTI UNE CENTIEME (Translation: The Government of Haiti One Centime) |
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| Mintage | 1807 - Essai |
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Haiti's 1807 essai coinage was produced in the chaotic years immediately following independence, when Jean-Jacques Dessalines had already been assassinated and Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion were carving the new state into rival northern and southern factions. Establishing a credible national coinage was as much a political act as an economic one — proof that the world's first Black republic could issue sovereign money. Whether this piece ever moved beyond pattern stage into any form of official adoption is unclear; the KM#Pn1 designation places it firmly in the trial category.