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2 Gourdes
| Issuer | Trésorerie Générale de la République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Value | 2 Gourdes |
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| Obverse description | The Haitian national coat of arms is centrally positioned in the upper portion of the note, flanked by the inscriptions "Liberté" and "Egalité" on either side. Two denomination counters bearing the numeral "100" are placed in the central field, with a handwritten serial number between them, and two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion. The denomination "Deux Gourdes" is printed vertically in large letters along both the left and right margins within a simple ruled border frame. |
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| Protection description | Text REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI |
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Haiti's Trésorerie Générale issued this note just two decades after independence, during a period of chronic fiscal instability compounded by the enormous indemnity payments France had imposed on Haiti in 1825 — the notorious "debt of independence" that drained the republic's treasury for well over a century. Paper money circulated uneasily in a population that had little reason to trust state institutions, and early Haitian notes of this series rarely survived in any condition worth cataloging.
P#2 is among the earliest documented paper currency issues of the Western Hemisphere's first Black republic. Survivors are genuinely rare; most known examples come from archival rather than commercial sources.