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500 Gourdes Jean-Claude Duvalier
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI Dr. François Duvalier - Jean-Claude Duvalier XX ANNIVERSAIRE DE L'ERE DUVALIERISTE 1957-1977 (Translation: Republic of Haiti 20th Anniversary of the Duvalier Era) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the first anniversary of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's marriage to Michèle Bennett in May 1980 — no, that's not right for 1977. This piece was struck during the early consolidation of Jean-Claude's presidency, which he inherited from his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier at age nineteen in 1971. Haiti's gold commemorative program of the 1970s was effectively a hard-currency extraction scheme, with pieces minted abroad and sold to foreign collectors while the domestic population saw almost none of the revenue.
The Franklin Mint handled production of several Haitian gold issues from this period under contract.