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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a standing allegorical female figure in classical robes, rendered as a letterpress vignette within a ruled border panel. To the right, a vignette of the Haitian national coat of arms — a palm tree flanked by cannons and flags. The central field carries the denomination numeral '10' above the legend 'Dix Centimes', with a repeated underprint of '10 10 10' below, and manuscript lines for the controller's and bank director's signatures beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a densely printed text block in small letterpress type covering the majority of the surface, likely comprising legal tender and redemption conditions, flanked at lower left by a vignette of the national coat of arms and at upper right by a partial allegorical figure vignette. The overall impression is utilitarian, with no decorative guilloche border. |
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Haiti's 1889 10 Centimes issue arrived during a period of chronic fiscal instability — the Banque Nationale d'Haïti had only been reorganized under French financial interests a few years prior, and small-denomination paper was being pushed into circulation to compensate for a persistent shortage of fractional coin. The public's trust in paper at this level was essentially nonexistent, and low-denomination notes from this period suffered heavy handling or were simply discarded rather than redeemed.
Pick 83 is among the scarcer small-format Haitian notes of the late nineteenth century. Attrition, not rarity at issue, accounts for that.