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50 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Reference(s) | P#204 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of a portrait of Louis Étienne Félicité Lysius Salomon, the 13th President of Haiti (1879–1888), set against an intricate guilloche underprint. The denomination and issuing bank title are inscribed around the portrait within elaborate engraved borders. |
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| Reverse description | The Haitian National Coat of Arms — a palm tree surmounted by a Phrygian cap with a cannon and cannonballs at its base — occupies the central medallion, flanked by symmetrical guilloche scrollwork panels bearing the numeral '50' at each corner. The bank title 'BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI' arcs across the top, and the denomination 'CINQUANTE GOURDES' is lettered along the lower margin in bold intaglio print, with the imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY' appearing at the bottom edge. |
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The Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti issued this note under Jean-Claude Duvalier's early presidency — his father François ("Papa Doc") had died in April 1971, leaving a nineteen-year-old in nominal control of the state. ABNC had been printing Haitian currency for decades by this point, and the relationship was well established.
The 50 Gourdes denomination sat high in the circulating series for a country where most transactions involved far smaller amounts, making these notes common in government and commercial banking channels rather than everyday retail use.