1 Gourde Treasury bond

Haiti's 1915 was a year of violent political collapse — six presidents in four years had ended with Vilbrun Guillaume Sam's assassination in July, and U.S. Marines landing within days. The Trésor Public issued this 1 Gourde bond under a government that effectively ceased to function as a sovereign authority within months of its printing. Whether this was issued before or after the July crisis places it in dramatically different political circumstances, and the record is not clean on that point.

Treasury bonds at this denomination were circulating substitutes, not investment instruments — the 1 Gourde face value put them in everyday transactional use at a moment when public confidence in any Haitian paper instrument was near its floor.