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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.