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2 Gourdes
| Issuer | République d'Haïti |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note within a single-rule rectangular border, with the heading REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI centred at top, flanked by the inscriptions Liberté and Égalité. The denomination DEUX GOURDES appears in large letterpress text along the right margin, with the numeral 100 repeated in two cartouches across the centre. A text block in French confirms circulation authority under the law of 16 April 1827, below which a manuscript signature line is printed for Le Membre signataire. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, without printed text, vignette, or ornamental device, consistent with the simple typeset issues of the early Haitian Republic. |
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Haiti's 1827 paper currency was issued under President Jean-Pierre Boyer, whose government unified Hispaniola under Haitian control from 1822 to 1844 — a period during which Boyer was simultaneously managing the ruinous indemnity payments to France that had been formalized in 1825. The French demand for 150 million francs in compensation to former colonists placed extraordinary pressure on Haitian public finances, and domestic paper issues of this period were deeply distrusted by a population that had witnessed the inflationary collapse of earlier revolutionary-era notes.
Survivors from this issue are genuinely rare. The 1827 series had limited print runs and circulated in an economy where metallic coin was strongly preferred.