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2 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Citadelle Laferrière (Citadelle Henri Christophe), engraved in intaglio, set within an ornate guilloche rosette at the centre of the note. The denomination numeral '2' appears in large format at left and right within scalloped guilloche medallions. The bank title 'BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI' runs along the top margin, with the legend 'DEUX GOURDES' in bold letterpress below the central vignette. Serial number prefixes and numerals appear at upper left and upper right, with three manuscript signature lines and printed role titles across the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Waterlow & Sons printed this note during Haiti's relatively stable Estimé-to-Magloire transitional period, when the Banque Nationale was still operating under the terms of a 1947 agreement that had finally consolidated Haitian monetary control after decades of American-supervised finance. The series to which P#175 belongs reflects that consolidation — a deliberate assertion of institutional normalcy following the end of the U.S. occupation era's financial arrangements.
Waterlow's contract with Haiti ran across multiple denominations through this period, and the 2 Gourdes is among the lower-value notes least likely to have survived in quantity — small denominations circulated hard and were rarely saved.