Catalog
100 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Currency | Third gourde (1872-date) |
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| Obverse description | At left, an oval vignette portrays agricultural field workers harvesting crops beneath a thatched roof structure, rendered in a detailed intaglio style. To the right, the large numeral 100 appears in ornate guilloche underprint, flanked by the inscription CENT GOURDES below. The upper border carries the issuing authority BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI within a decorative letterpress frame, with three signature lines for UN ADMINISTRATEUR, UN DIRECTEUR, and UN ADMINISTRATEUR along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Haiti's 1950 issue came during the presidency of Dumarsais Estimé, whose government had negotiated the end of the U.S.-supervised fiscal control that had constrained Haitian monetary policy since the occupation era. Waterlow & Sons handled the printing, as they did for a considerable portion of Caribbean and Latin American government paper through the mid-century — a relationship built on competitive pricing and the firm's willingness to extend credit to smaller issuing authorities.
P#177 is scarce in higher grades. The gourde's fixed peg to the U.S. dollar at 5:1, held rigidly from 1919 through the 1980s, meant 100-gourde notes represented real purchasing power and saw genuine hard use.