Haiti. Currency portrait vignettes. Steel. 3 x 4 inches. Imprints of American Bank Note Company, New York.
Pair of portrait vignettes used together on Haitian currency issues of the Treasury Series of 1903-1908:
Portrait of Jean-Jacques (1758-1806), the first leader of independent Haiti from late 1804 until 1806. The portrait is used on the faces of several series.
Portrait of General Pierre Nord Alexis (1820-1910), who would become President of Haiti from 1902-1908. These portraits appear together on the faces of one, two, and five Gourde notes (Pick-110, 111, 120, 121, and 125).
Both plates are satiny, highly lustrous and rather clean with little more than the typical light hairlines noted. A nice pair of distinctive portraits. (Total: 2 pieces)
Engraved Identification Number: SPECIAL V 44307 (C-491 crossed out) and SPECIAL V-42711 (crossed out).
These interesting and worthwhile items, it being one of kind, items that may never be available again.
