1 Gourde

Haiti's 1914 issue came at an extraordinarily fraught moment: the country was cycling through presidents at a murderous pace — seven in four years — and U.S. financial interests, including the National City Bank of New York, were actively maneuvering for control of the Banque Nationale d'Haïti. The American Bank Note Company contract was itself part of that broader financial entanglement, with New York printing the paper instruments of a government Washington was simultaneously destabilizing.

The U.S. Marine occupation followed in 1915, and much of this series was effectively superseded by transitional monetary arrangements almost immediately after issue. Surviving circulated examples reflect a short but turbulent window.