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50 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Haitian National Coat of Arms — a palm tree surmounted by a Phrygian cap, flanked by cannons and cannonballs — enclosed within a finely engraved circular frame surrounded by radiating guilloche work. The bank title BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI arcs across the top, while CINQUANTE GOURDES appears in bold letterpress along the lower margin. The denomination numeral 50 is repeated in each corner within ornate scroll cartouches, and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY is present at the bottom edge. |
| Reverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DE LA REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI CINQUANTE GOURDES 50 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The P#213 is part of a series the Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti issued during the Duvalier years — Jean-Claude had assumed power in 1971 following his father's death, and the currency was one of several institutions his government used to project continuity. ABNC's involvement here is routine for Haiti; the company printed Haitian notes across multiple decades and several political regimes.
Haiti's gourde had been pegged to the US dollar at 5:1 since 1919, a fixed rate that held with unusual rigidity well into the 1980s — one of the longest-lived fixed exchange arrangements in the Western Hemisphere.