50 centimes or ½ gourde from Haiti, 1895
Also known as: 50 centimes of ½ gourde uit Haïti, 1895
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1895
Silver coin. Obverse: palm tree rising from drum, behind which banners. To the left and right of drum two cannons, below which stack of cannonballs. Below that banner with motto.
At the bottom value indication: 50 centimes. Reverse: head of a woman with headscarf facing right. In legend at the bottom year: 1895 and fineness and weight indication and year: AN 92. Milled edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5242A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.9 cm x weight 12.41 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 2.9 cm x weight 12.41 g
Design
- Obverse
- palm tree rising from drum, behind which banners. To the left and right of drum two cannons, below which stack of cannonballs. Below that banner with motto. At the bottom value indication: 50 centimes.
- Reverse
- head of a woman with headscarf facing right. In legend at the bottom year: 1895 and fineness and weight indication and year: AN 92. Milled edge.
Identification
- Original title
- 50 centimes of ½ gourde uit Haïti, 1895
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-1-5242A
- Museum classification
- coin
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