Catalog
1 Gourde
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1920-1924 |
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| Reference(s) | P#150 |
| Obverse description | At centre, the denomination UNE GOURDE appears within a large oval guilloche frame, flanked on the left by a vignette of a banana tree within an oval border and on the right by a decorative monogram medallion. The issuing authority BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI is inscribed across the top, with the convention text and three manuscript signatures of bank officials along the lower portion. The imprint of American Bank Note Company appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI UNE GOURDE CE BILLET, EMIS PAR LA BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI, EN VERTU DE SON CONTRAT DE CONCESSION, ET CONFORMEMENT A LA CONVENTION DU 2 MAI 1919, EST PAYABLE AU PORTEUR EN MONNAIE LEGALE DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE AU TAUX DE CINQ GOURDES UN DOLLAR A PRESENTATION AU GUICHET DE LA BANQUE A PORT-AU-PRINCE ET SOUS DELAIS DE ROUTE A SES GUICHETS DE PROVINCE. AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti was, during this period, effectively under American administrative control — the U.S. occupation of Haiti, which ran from 1915 to 1934, placed the national bank's finances under the oversight of the National City Bank of New York. The choice of the American Bank Note Company as printer was not incidental to that arrangement.
P#150 spans a four-year window across which serial numbering and signature combinations varied, making date attribution on undated or partially dated examples genuinely difficult without cross-referencing known signature panels.