Catalog
15 Sols
| Issuer | State of Haiti |
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| Year | 1807-1809 |
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| Value | 15 Sols = Escalin (¾) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | LIBERTAS. RELIGIO. MORES. HC. |
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Henri Christophe issued this coin during the fractured years following Jean-Jacques Dessalines's assassination in 1806, when Haiti split into two rival states — Christophe's republic in the north and Pétion's in the south. The 15 sols denomination is an awkward fraction with roots in the old French colonial monetary system, retained less out of convenience than because the new state lacked the administrative machinery to break cleanly from pre-revolutionary accounting habits.
KM#6 is notably scarce in any grade. The northern state's minting infrastructure was rudimentary, and the political instability of 1807–1809 kept production irregular.