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250 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Currency | Third gourde (1872-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) in intaglio engraving at right, dressed in military uniform with bicorne hat, against a guilloche underprint background. The denomination '250' appears in large numerals at centre, with the inscription 'DEUX CENT CINQUANTE GOURDES' below. The heading 'BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI' runs across the top, with serial numbers flanking the central vignette and three manuscript signatures at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The Haitian National Coat of Arms engraved at centre within a fine guilloche frame, flanked by large '250' numerals in each corner. The arms vignette shows a palm tree surmounted by a Phrygian cap, cannon and cannonballs, with the motto 'L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE' on a ribbon below. The issuer's name 'BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI' appears at top, and the denomination legend 'DEUX CENT CINQUANTE GOURDES' is inscribed along the lower portion of the note. |
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The Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti placed this order with ABNC during the height of the Duvalier regime — François "Papa Doc" Duvalier died in April 1971, meaning this note entered circulation under his son Jean-Claude almost immediately after printing. The 250 gourdes denomination sat at the top of the series, far beyond ordinary daily transactions in a country where most commerce moved in small change.
ABNC had supplied Haitian currency for decades by this point, a relationship stretching back to the American occupation period. The watermark is the sole security provision — no security thread, no color-shifting ink.