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1 Gourde
| Issuer | Syndicat de Banque (Haiti) |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 1 Gourde (1 HTG) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI - LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE - UNE GOURDE - CE BILLET EST EMIS SOUS LA GARANTIE DU GOUVERNEMENT ET LE CONTROLE DU SYNDICAT A COURS DANS TOUTE LA REPUBLIQUE POUR LA VALEUR D'UNE GOURDE - LE DIRECTEUR DU SYNDICAT - LE MEMBRE DE LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in reddish-brown on plain paper, with an elaborate interlocking guilloche pattern forming a wide decorative border surrounding a central rectangular text panel. Large shadowed numerals 1 appear at left and right within the guilloche framework. The central panel contains a French-language legal text describing the conditions governing the note's validity and the penalties for counterfeiting. |
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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.