Catalog
2 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Value | 2 Gourdes (2 HTG) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI DEUX GOURDES CONVENTION DU 12 AVRIL 1919. CE BILLET EST PAYABLE AU PORTEUR EN MONNAIE LEGALE DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE AU TAUX DE CINQ GOURDES POUR UN DOLLAR. UN ADMIN-STRATEUR UN ADMIN-STRATEUR UN CAISSIER WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDRES |
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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.