2 Centimes

Haiti's 1850 coinage was issued under Emperor Faustin I — the former General Faustin Soulouque, who had himself crowned in a ceremony deliberately modeled on Napoleon's 1804 coronation. The copper centimes of this period were among the first coins to bear his imperial title, produced as Faustin worked to consolidate authority over a republic that had elected him president just two years earlier and which he had promptly abolished.

KM#35 is scarce in any grade above Fine, consistent with the limited institutional infrastructure of Haitian coinage production in this period.