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1 Gourde
| Issuer | Republic of Haiti |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a broad, essentially plain field bearing no central design element, consistent with a uniface or blank reverse type for this issue. The surface shows a flat, slightly convex field with no inscriptions, devices, or decorative elements visible, the denomination and date having been incorporated into the obverse design. The coin exhibits characteristic bronze patination across the entire reverse surface. |
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Haiti's 1889 gourde issue appeared during a period of acute political instability — the country cycled through multiple heads of state across the 1880s, and monetary policy reflected that disorder. Bronze at this denomination was a concession to fiscal reality; silver issues had become increasingly difficult to sustain as government revenues eroded under debt obligations still trailing back to the indemnity extracted by France in 1825.
KM#51 is seldom encountered with original surfaces intact, consistent with heavy use in a cash-dependent rural economy where small transactions left little room for coin preservation.