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10 Gourdes
| Issuer | Trésor Public, République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is covered entirely by a fine geometric guilloche underprint in blue-grey lathe-work, with the text RÉPUBLIQUE arranged at the top and D'HAÏTI at the bottom, both formed by the negative space of the mesh pattern, and the numeral 10 occupying the centre in the same manner. |
| Reverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE 10 D'HAÏTI |
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Haiti's Trésor Public notes of the 1820s were issued during an extraordinarily turbulent fiscal stretch. The 1825 indemnity agreement with France — under which Haiti committed to paying 150 million francs to compensate former colonists for lost property, including enslaved people — immediately destabilized state finances. Domestic paper issues from this period were attempts to manage a treasury that was, in practice, already pledged to Paris.
P#36 is among the rarest of Haitian nineteenth-century issues. Surviving examples are known in single digits globally, and the question of whether any circulated meaningfully or were simply issued and recalled is unresolved in the literature.