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10 Gourdes Red Cloud Oglala Sioux
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 10 Gourdes (10 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Red Cloud, the celebrated Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, facing slightly left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed long hair and a single feather rising from the crown. A beaded necklace is visible at the truncation. The legend REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI arcs along the upper periphery, while the inscription RED CLOUD OGLALA SIOUX curves along the lower field. The deeply mirrored proof field provides strong contrast against the frosted portrait. |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the full Haitian coat of arms, featuring a royal palm flanked by crossed cannons and rifles on a green hillside, with two cannons on wheeled carriages to either side and a Phrygian cap at the apex. A scroll beneath the arms bears the motto L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE. The arc legend LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE runs along the upper periphery, with the fineness mark 1000 and mint mark IC appearing on either side of the lower field. The denomination 10 GOURDES and date 1971 are inscribed in large characters along the lower exergue. |
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Haiti's early 1970s commemorative silver program was a creature of the Duvalier government's hard currency strategy — Jean-Claude Duvalier had just inherited power from his father in 1971, and foreign exchange was desperately needed. The series leaned heavily on American historical subjects, almost entirely disconnected from Haitian history, because that's what the international collector market would buy.
Red Cloud, the Oglala Lakota leader who forced the U.S. Army to abandon its Bozeman Trail forts in 1868 — the only Native American leader to win a war against the United States — is a peculiar subject for a Port-au-Prince mint issue.