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50 Centimes
| Issuer | Republic of Haiti |
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| Year | 1827-1833 |
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| Currency | First gourde (1813-1870) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed left-facing portrait bust of Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti, rendered in neoclassical style with naturalistically rendered curled hair. The legend 'J.P. BOYER PRESIDENT.' arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by small stars at either side. The Haitian republican year 'AN 28.' is inscribed in the lower exergual area beneath the truncation. The portrait exhibits fine detail in the hair and facial features, consistent with early nineteenth-century engraving conventions. |
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Haiti's early republican coinage was produced under extraordinarily difficult conditions. The new state was still hemorrhaging wealth through the 1825 indemnity imposed by France — 150 million francs in exchange for diplomatic recognition — a payment that consumed Haitian revenues for generations. Coinage from this window reflects a government minting on its own terms for the first time, yet financially strangled by the very treaty that ended its international isolation.
KM#20 was struck at Port-au-Prince. The series is known for inconsistent planchet preparation, and genuine examples frequently show surface irregularities that are native to manufacture rather than post-mint damage.