Catalog
1 Gourde
| Issuer | République d'Haïti (State of Haiti) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ RÉPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI CE BILLET ÉMIS PAR L'ETAT D'HAÏTI, EN VERTU DE LA LOI DU 22 DÉCEMBRE 1914, A COURS LÉGAL DANS LA RÉPUBLIQUE POUR LA VALEUR DE UNE GOURDE ET SON REMBOURSEMENT EST GARANTI PAR LES IMPÔTS CRÉÉS PAR LA LOI DU 11 AOÛT 1903, SUR LE RETRAIT DU PAPIER MONNAIE. |
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| Reverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI 1 UNE CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE CETTE ÉMISSION ET CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT À LA LOI. |
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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The U.S. Marine occupation followed in 1915, and much of this series was effectively superseded by transitional monetary arrangements almost immediately after issue.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.