Catalog
250 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Haitian National Coat of Arms set within an elaborate guilloche framework in brown ink. The issuing authority inscription BANQUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI arches across the top, with DEUX CENT CINQUANTE GOURDES below the arms and the large numeral 250 to the right. A legal compliance clause reading CE BILLET EST EMIS CONFORMEMENT A LA CONSTITUTION DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI appears along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint GIESECKE & DEVRIENT MUNICH at the bottom centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Haiti's 1994 notes were issued under extraordinary political pressure — the country was under a US-led international embargo following the 1991 military coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the Banque de la République d'Haïti was operating in a severely constrained economy with rampant inflation and a near-collapsed gourde. That G&D continued printing in Leipzig throughout this period is itself notable; the embargo targeted trade and financial transactions but did not halt all currency contracts.
The 250 gourdes denomination was relatively new to the series, introduced as inflation made smaller notes increasingly impractical.