10 Gourdes War Eagle Yankton Sioux

Haiti's early 1970s collector coinage was produced almost entirely for the export market — foreign buyers, not Haitian citizens. This piece is part of a series commissioned under the Duvalier government, which licensed foreign minting houses to produce silver and gold issues nominally denominated in gourdes but never intended for domestic circulation. The Yankton Sioux subject has no connection to Haiti whatsoever; it reflects the era's broader market for "world coin" sets sold through Franklin Mint-style distribution channels to American collectors.

The Yankton Sioux were among the first Sioux bands to sign a treaty with the U.S. government, doing so in 1858.