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2 Gourdes
| Issuer | République d'Haïti (State issue) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | P#132 |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of an agricultural or mining scene with figures at work in a landscape setting, printed entirely in red-pink ink. The design is enclosed within elaborate guilloche framework with large numeral 2 medallions at left and right flanking the central scene, and the country name across the top. Anti-counterfeiting warning text appears in a panel below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI 2 CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE CETTE ÉMISSION ET CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT À LA LOI. |
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Haiti's state-issue paper currency of this period was produced under chronic fiscal stress, with the government frequently pledging customs revenues to foreign creditors — French, German, and American interests all had claims on Port-au-Prince's income by 1914. The timing matters: this note was issued just months before the United States occupation began in July 1915, after which American financial control effectively ended Haitian monetary autonomy for nearly two decades.
ABNC's work for Haiti across this era is competent but not among their more elaborate commissions — the contracts were small and the plates reused or adapted across successive issues.