50 Gourdes

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.