500 Gourdes

Haiti's 1993 500 Gourdes was issued during one of the country's more turbulent political intervals — the period following the 1991 military coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the international embargo that followed, which severely constrained the Haitian economy and drove significant inflation pressure on larger-denomination notes. The 500 Gourdes was, by local purchasing standards, a high-value instrument navigating a collapsing exchange environment.

Giesecke & Devrient had held the Haitian printing contract for several series by this point, supplying notes with the security thread and watermark combination that became characteristic of the republic's issues through the 1980s and 1990s. The Leipzig facility handled the work throughout.