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100 Gourdes Charles Lindbergh
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 100 Gourdes (100 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Charles A. Lindbergh wearing a leather aviator's helmet and flight gear occupies the upper central field. Below the bust, a left-facing depiction of his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, is shown in flight above stylized ocean waves, with the inscription '20-21 MAI' appearing beneath the aircraft. The legend 'REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI' arcs along the left and upper periphery, flanked by a beaded border, while 'CHARLES A. LINDBERGH' curves to the left and 'LINDBERGH' to the right of the portrait. The lower field bears the commemorative dates '1927-1977' and the inscription '50EME ANNIVERSAIRE' along the bottom arc. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI CHARLES A. LINDBERGH 20-21 MAI 1927-1977 50EME ANNIVERSAIRE (Translation: Republic of Haiti Charles A. Lindbergh 20-21 May 1927-1977 50th Anniversary) |
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This piece was struck to commemorate Lindbergh's 1927 New York–to–Paris flight, with Haiti holding particular significance in that story: Port-au-Prince was one of the stops on his subsequent "Good Will Tour" of Latin America and the Caribbean, a 49-city diplomatic mission organized at the request of the Coolidge administration beginning in late 1927. Haiti was under U.S. occupation at the time, and Lindbergh's arrival was staged partly to soften regional resentment of American interventionism.
The .925 silver at 43g places this squarely among the larger proof-format commemoratives Haiti issued through the Franklin Mint during the mid-to-late 1970s — a revenue-generating program that had little connection to domestic circulation.