25 Gourdes Government of South Haiti

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.