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50 Gourdes Holy Year
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts two prominent Vatican and Roman ecclesiastical buildings side by side: at left, the facade and dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, and at right, a Romanesque church facade with a large rose window. The curved legend ANNEE SAINTE arcs along the upper periphery, with the date range 1983-1984 inscribed vertically at the right margin. The denomination 50 GOURDES appears in the lower left field, accompanied by the date 1983 and mint mark R. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Haiti's 1983 "Holy Year" issue was struck to commemorate the 1983–1984 Catholic Jubilee and Pope John Paul II's visit to the island in March 1983 — the first papal visit in Haitian history. The country was then under Jean-Claude Duvalier, and the regime leveraged the visit heavily for legitimacy, a political backdrop that made the commemorative coinage as much a propaganda instrument as a devotional one.