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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Banque Nationale d'Haiti |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes (0.25 HTG) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of President Michel Domingue in military uniform occupies the left portion of the note. To the right, a vignette of tropical scenery with palm trees, cannon, and cannon balls is placed at the lower right corner. The central text in French reads "La Banque Nationale d'Haiti" at top, with the denomination "Vingt Cinq Centimes" in large letterpress, and the date "Septre 1875" above. Signature lines for "Le Caissier Principal" and "L'Agent du Gouvernement" appear at the bottom, with "Le President" above them. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown ink and consists entirely of intricate guilloche lathe-work. Two large ornate oval guilloche rosettes flank the center, which carries the numeral "25" within a circular guilloche medallion. The inscriptions "VINGT CINQ" and "CENTIMES" appear above and below the central numeral, with the printer's imprint at the bottom. |
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Haiti's 1875 issue came during a period of extreme monetary instability, when successive governments had debased and reissued currency so aggressively that public confidence in paper had almost entirely collapsed. The Banque Nationale d'Haiti, operating under French financial interests, turned to the American Bank Note Company — then the dominant security printer in the Western Hemisphere — to lend the notes a credibility that domestic printing could not provide.
P#68 is among the rarer low-denomination survivors from this series. Small-value notes circulated hardest and were seldom preserved.