50 Gourdes

The American Bank Note Company had been printing Haitian currency almost continuously since the early twentieth century, a relationship that outlasted coups, dictatorships, and repeated monetary reforms. By the mid-1980s, Haiti under Jean-Claude Duvalier and then the chaotic interregnum following his February 1986 flight was hardly a stable client — yet ABNC continued fulfilling contracts through the transition.

Pick 249 spans that political rupture. Notes dated within the series may predate or postdate Duvalier's departure, with no typographic distinction between them. The watermark is the sole security feature — modest even by the standards of the period.