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20 Centimes
| Issuer | Republic of Haiti |
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| Year | 1881-1895 |
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| Value | 20 Centimes (0.20 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Liberty wearing a Phrygian-style bonnet tied with a ribbon, engraved in high relief in the neoclassical style of Louis-Oscar Roty. The engraver's signature ROTY appears on the truncation, with LAFORESTRIE inscribed below the bust near the lower rim. The circular legend around the periphery reads REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI AN [year], with the fineness 835 MILL and weight 5 GRAM incorporated into the field legend alongside the Gregorian date. The coin is framed by a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Haiti's silver coinage of the 1880s was struck under contract in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris, a arrangement that reflected the near-total dependence of the Haitian government on French financial infrastructure despite having won independence from France nearly eight decades earlier. The country's chronic fiscal instability during this period — marked by rapid presidential turnover, several of them violent — meant that monetary policy was largely reactive, with coin orders placed when foreign exchange reserves allowed rather than on any consistent schedule.
The .835 fineness matches the Latin Monetary Union standard, though Haiti was never a member.