Catalog
30 Sols - Henri Christophe Essai
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Currency | Livre (1625-1813) |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTAS RELIGIO MORES HC 1808 (Translation: Liberty Religion Morality) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Henri Christophe issued this essai during the period when Haiti's northern state was consolidating authority following the assassination of Dessalines in 1806. The country had fractured — Pétion controlling the south as a republic, Christophe holding the north under increasingly autocratic rule. This trial piece predates his self-proclamation as King Henri I by two years, placing it in the uncertain interregnum when the monetary system of the new nation was still being invented from scratch.
Essais from this period were never released for circulation, which explains survival in superior condition. KM#Pn8 is among the rarest Haitian pattern issues documented.