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20 Centimes
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1907-1908 |
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| Currency | Third gourde (1872-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI 1907 (Translation: Republic of Haiti) |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Haitian coat of arms: a royal palm tree surmounted by a Phrygian cap, flanked by symmetrically arranged trophies of flags, cannons, cannonballs, anchors, and a drum on a green field above a landscape. The motto L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE curves in small lettering within the lower portion of the arms. The peripheral legend LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ arcs around the upper and lateral fields, separated by raised dots. The denomination .20. appears in large numerals at the bottom, flanked by raised dots, with a beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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Haiti's copper-nickel coinage of this period was struck at the Paris Mint, as the country lacked domestic minting capacity throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The 1907–1908 issues arrived during the presidency of Nord Alexis, an octogenarian general whose government was already collapsing under debt obligations to French creditors and internal revolt — he was ousted in December 1908 and fled aboard a French warship.