Haitian notes in our January 2021 auction.
We are offering 53 notes from
Haiti, split between our Live and Internet sessions. These notes span from the 1820s through the 1960s, offering notes from the early Republic of Haiti, through the U.S. Civil War period, and up to more modern times.
The standout highlights are
30177. These notes stem from
Bernard Kock’s attempts to re-settle freed slaves from the American Civil War on the Haitian satellite island of
Île-à-Vache. Bernard planned to use the island as a settlement to produce cotton, with freed Blacks as workers, and secured permission from the Haitian government to do so. The island’s own currency was produced by Kock, which could be exchanged for normal Haitian