1 Gourde

The Banque Nationale d'Haïti was itself a contested institution — chartered in 1880 under a concession heavily influenced by French banking interests, specifically the Crédit Industriel et Commercial in Paris, though the notes were printed in London by Skipper & East. That split between French financial control and British printing is a recurring feature of late nineteenth-century Haitian currency.

The 1887 date places this note in a period of relative monetary stability before the severe fiscal deterioration that followed the Haitian-Dominican border disputes and the chronic debt burden of the 1825 French indemnity, which continued draining state finances well into this era.

Skipper & East also produced notes for several South African and Caribbean issuers during this period, often working from engraved plates shared or adapted across colonial and post-colonial clients.