Catalog
10 Centimes - Faustin I Essai
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Faustin Soulouque declared himself Emperor Faustin I in 1849, transforming Haiti's republic into an empire that lasted until his forced abdication in 1859. This essai — a pattern strike produced for approval rather than circulation — dates to a period when Soulouque was actively attempting to project imperial legitimacy through coinage reform. Whether the design was ever formally approved for circulation is unclear; the survival of pattern pieces without a corresponding business strike suggests the project stalled, possibly amid the political turbulence that preceded his exile to Jamaica.