100 Gourdes

Thomas De La Rue printed the bulk of Haiti's banknote series from the 1970s onward, a relationship that persisted through considerable political turbulence. This note falls within the final years of Jean-Claude Duvalier's presidency — he fled Haiti in February 1986 — and the subsequent military council period, meaning notes from this date range potentially circulated under two very different governments without design alteration.

The gourde had been pegged to the US dollar at five to one since 1919, a fixed rate that held officially for decades longer than economic reality justified.