The two gourdes of the late 1980s are devoted to the Citadelle Laferrière, a mountain fortress in northern Haiti also known as the Citadelle Henri Christophe. Henri Christophe commissioned it in 1805, and tens of thousands of former slaves built it until 1820 so that the young state could repel a French return that never came.

The fortress walls rise 40 metres above the mountaintop, 365 cannons were mounted on its ramparts, and in 1982 the Citadelle and the Sans-Souci Palace were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The note was issued by the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, which in 1979 replaced the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti as the issuer of paper money. The note bears no date: catalogues assign the type to 1986–1988.

For a Haiti collection this is a note of a denomination no longer printed, and in sets on fortresses or UNESCO sites on banknotes it shows the Citadelle Laferrière long before it appeared on the jubilee hundred gourdes. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.

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