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500 Gourdes Haitian Art, Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
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| Value | 500 Gourdes (500 HTG) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse, entirely plain and unadorned, presenting a smooth, flat field with no devices, legends, or inscriptions. The surface shows minor die marks consistent with a trial striking. The blank reverse confirms this piece as an obverse trial uniface produced solely to test the obverse die design. |
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Haiti's prestige coinage of this period was produced largely for the international collector market under Duvalier's government, which aggressively licensed foreign minting firms — primarily in Philadelphia and Europe — to produce high-denomination pieces that generated hard currency rather than circulated. The 500-gourde Haitian Art series was among these, issued to coincide with growing international interest in Haitian primitive painting as a recognized folk art movement.
An obverse trial at this size and weight indicates die approval work prior to final striking — large-format silver proofs required multiple test pressings to confirm die alignment and surface transfer at depth.