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24 Gourdes Government of South Haiti
| Issuer | Government of South Haiti |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Liberté Egalité SIE. B $ 24 VINGT-QUATRE GOURDES Le présent Billet circulera dans la République pour la somme de VINGT-QUATRE GOURDES, et le Trésor public en garantit la valeur au porteur conformément à l'arrêté du gouvernement du Sud d'Haïti, en date du 13 octobre 1868. Pour le Trésorier, Vingt-Quatre Gourdes |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted surface, the reverse consisting of blank paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental design. |
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The Government of South Haiti was a breakaway administration that controlled the southern peninsula following the assassination of President Geffrard in 1867 and the civil conflict that preceded the eventual reunification under Salnave. These notes were emergency fiscal instruments issued under genuinely precarious political conditions — not a functioning central bank operation but a government scrambling to pay its obligations.
The 24-gourde denomination is an unusual unit, suggesting conversion arithmetic tied to specific payments or debts rather than a clean monetary series. Pick 55 is among the rarer survivors of this short-lived issuer.