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1 Gourde - Faustin I Essai
| Uitgever | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Jaar | 1854 |
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| Referentie(s) | KM#Pn54, KM#Pn56, KM#Pn58, KM#Pn59 |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Right-facing laureate and uniformed bust of Emperor Faustin I in high relief, rendered in the imperial portrait tradition with meticulous detail to the elaborately embroidered collar, epaulette, and military dress. The effigy dominates the field with fine engraving of the facial features, conveying the formal dignity of the imperial coinage. The legend FAUSTIN I EMPEREUR arcs along the upper periphery in incuse Latin lettering, while the word ESSAI appears in the lower field, designating this piece as an official pattern or trial strike. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | FAUSTIN I EMPEREUR ESSAI (Translation: Emperor Faustin I Trial) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Faustin Soulouque, a former slave who rose through the Haitian military to become president in 1847, declared himself Emperor Faustin I in 1849 — an act that drew both ridicule from European powers and genuine alarm from slaveholding states watching Haiti closely. These essais were struck in Paris as part of the new imperial coinage program, a deliberate assertion of institutional legitimacy for a regime the outside world largely refused to take seriously. Soulouque was deposed in 1859, and the imperial coinage program died with his reign, making these pattern pieces documentary artifacts of one of the more improbable episodes in Caribbean political history.