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1 Centime Essai
| Issuer | Haiti (1804-date) |
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| Year | 1807 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing the denomination in two lines at centre, reading UNE / CENTIEME in raised block letters. The circular legend LE GOUVERNMENT DE HAYTI runs around the periphery, with a small rosette ornament at the base. The reverse is otherwise unadorned, relying on the bold typographic presentation of the denomination as the principal design element. A milled border of fine denticles frames the composition. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Haiti's 1807 essai coinage was produced in the chaotic years immediately following independence, when Jean-Jacques Dessalines had already been assassinated and Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion were carving the new state into rival northern and southern factions. Establishing a credible national coinage was as much a political act as an economic one — proof that the world's first Black republic could issue sovereign money. Whether this piece ever moved beyond pattern stage into any form of official adoption is unclear; the KM#Pn1 designation places it firmly in the trial category.