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50 Gourdes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette is an intaglio portrait of Lysius Félicité Salomon Jeune (1815–1888), President of Haiti from 1879 to 1888, set within an ornate guilloche framework. The denomination and issuer inscriptions are rendered in letterpress, flanking the central portrait on either side. Intricate lathe-work underprint patterns fill the margins of the note. |
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| 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.