250 Gourdes

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.