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5 Centimes FAO
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing truncated bust of Jean-Claude Duvalier, President of Haiti, occupying the central field. The peripheral legend REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI arcs along the upper rim in raised Latin lettering, while the date 1975 appears in the lower exergual area beneath the bust. The portrait is rendered in a plain, unadorned style with no diadem or insignia, consistent with the civic portraiture convention of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI 1975 (Translation: Republic of Haiti) |
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This piece was struck as part of Haiti's contribution to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which enlisted dozens of nations throughout the 1970s to issue low-denomination coins carrying agricultural messaging. The FAO program was less about monetary need than about visibility — participating governments received international goodwill and modest FAO support in exchange for issuing the coins, most of which saw little actual circulation.
Haiti in 1975 was firmly under Jean-Claude Duvalier, who had inherited power from his father François in 1971 at age nineteen.