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1 Gourde
| Issuer | Syndicat de Banque (Haiti) |
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| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, an allegorical female figure in classical dress reclines amid agricultural implements and produce, rendered as an intaglio vignette within an ornate guilloche border. The Haitian National Coat of Arms appears at right, flanked by the numeral 1 in large letterpress print at each lateral margin. The central text panel bears the French-language emission text including series designation, note number, and authorization decree, above the large denomination legend UNE GOURDE across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CE BILLET - SOUS LA GARANTIE DU GOUVERNEMENT - QUICONQUE FALSIFIERA CES BILLETS - DE BANQUE OU EN METTRA SCIEMMENT EN CIRCULATION - SERA PUNI CONFORMEMENT AUX LOIS - EN VIGUEUR EN HAITI - UNE GOURDE |
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The Syndicat de Banque was a short-lived private banking consortium granted note-issuing privileges in Haiti during a period of chronic fiscal instability — the government had repeatedly failed to establish a stable national bank, and the Syndicat represented one of several 19th-century attempts to fill that void through private capital. Its notes circulated alongside considerable public skepticism toward paper currency in general.
ABNC handled the printing, as they did for much of Caribbean and Latin American paper at this period. The Syndicat series is genuinely scarce in any surviving form; the issuer's brief operational life meant small print runs and limited redemption infrastructure.