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25 Gourdes Government of South Haiti
| Issuer | Government of South Haiti |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Liberté, Egalité. Sie. D $ 25 VINGT-CINQ GOURDES Le présent Billet circulera dans la République pour la somme de VINGT-CINQ 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-Cinq Gourdes |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain paper stock with show-through of the obverse text and vignette visible in mirror image, consistent with a single-sided letterpress issue. |
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The Government of South Haiti was a short-lived separatist administration under Sylvain Salnave, who controlled the southern peninsula after the country fractured into civil conflict in 1867–68. Salnave had proclaimed himself president of all Haiti, but effective control never extended beyond his immediate strongholds, leaving the south a contested and financially desperate zone. These notes were instruments of a government that collapsed within months of their issue.
Pick 56 is among the rarer emissions from this period precisely because the issuing authority ceased to exist before significant circulation could occur. Surviving examples tend to show folds consistent with brief handling rather than extended use.