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2 Gourdes Treasury bond
| Issuer | République d'Haiti (Treasury) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red on cream paper and carries an elaborate scrollwork border composed of interlocking foliate arabesques with small fleur-de-lis and rosette motifs. Two oval cartouches at left and right each contain the denomination numeral '2'. A central rectangular panel, itself framed by a finer decorative border, bears the anti-counterfeiting warning in three lines of bold letterpress text. |
| Reverse lettering | LA LOI PUNIT DE MORT LE CONTREFACTEUR |
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Haiti's Treasury bonds of 1915 were issued under extreme fiscal pressure — the country was functionally insolvent, its customs revenues pledged to foreign creditors, and the U.S. military occupation began that same year in July. These circulating bonds were a stopgap, not a conventional banknote issue, reflecting the collapse of normal monetary administration rather than any planned currency reform.
The Pick 128 series is rarely encountered in any condition. Most examples that survived did so outside Haiti, likely removed by American personnel or held by foreign merchants who had reason to preserve rather than spend them.