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12 Centimes Western Republic, small bust
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1817 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#14 |
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| Reverse description | Small bare-headed bust of Alexandre Pétion facing left, rendered in low relief with naturalistic hair treatment showing flowing curls. The truncation is plain. The circular legend around the periphery reads A.PETION PRESIDENT, with the regnal date AN 14 positioned in the lower exergual area. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | A.PETION PRESIDENT AN 14 (Translation: President A(lexandre) Petion Year 14) |
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Haiti's early republican coinage was produced under conditions of near-constant financial stress, with the young state still absorbing the economic wreckage of both the revolutionary war and the 1804 indemnity negotiations with France. The Western Republic designation reflects the political division of the island: Henri Christophe held the north as a kingdom, while Alexandre Pétion governed the southern and western regions as a republic until his death in 1818.
The "small bust" variety distinction on KM#14 points to die work done under extremely limited mint infrastructure — Port-au-Prince lacked the equipment of European facilities, and minor punch variations between issues were an inevitable byproduct of hand-prepared dies.