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500 Gourdes Economic Connections
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI 1977 (Translation: Republic of Haiti) |
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Issued under the Duvalier regime as part of a broader series of gold commemoratives aimed squarely at foreign collectors and investors rather than domestic circulation. Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had inherited the presidency in 1971 at age 19, and the government leaned heavily on numismatic exports as a hard currency mechanism throughout the 1970s. These coins were never intended to pass through Haitian hands.
KM#143 belongs to a FAO-affiliated thematic release promoting agricultural and economic development — a pointed irony given Haiti's condition at the time.