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by Garry Saint, Esquire, Member HNS

Haiti Commemoratives Both the 1999 Port-au-Prince - Hyppolite 1,000 Gourdes and the 2004 Bicentennials commemorative issues were held up pending legislation to authorize their release. The Central Bank has now released the six new Bicentennial designs starting on August 20, 2004 with the 1,000 Gourdes note planned for early in 2005. This article highlights both the revolutionary leaders and President Hyppolite's accomplishments.

Bernard Kock, King of Cow Island Was Abraham Lincoln hoodwinked by Kock? An entrepreneur offers Lincoln an attractive alternative to his "slave problem" with drastic consequences. This is a story of Kock's carefully laid plans gone badly because of investors who lost confidence in Kock and their Haitian venture. Pictures of two of the rare Kock notes from a recent auction were graciously provided by Rick Ponterio of Ponterio & Associates, Inc

Louis-Félicité Lysius Salomon-jeaune One of Haiti's most revered Presidents institutes reforms which are still being felt a century later. Leslie Manigat, the grandson of one of Salomon's generals, François Manigat, becomes the 36th President of Haiti in 1988 only to be overthrown by the military. An 1884 2 Gourde note signed by Françoise Manigat highlights this article.

Discovery Note of the Haiti 1902 Insurrection Long thought to be notes issued in 1915, a Haitian lawyer and researcher discovered that this popular and scarce series was actually issued during the 1902 insurrection. Highlighting this article is the discovery note, a 1 Gourde Series A in Orange, published here for the first time

by Joel Shafer , Managing Director, World Paper Money, Lyn Knight Currency Auctions

Stenio Vincent An article by Joel Shafer , Managing Director of Lyn Knight World Currency Auctions , for Bank Note Reporter about one of Haiti's little known 20th century Presidents. Shafer states that while "Vincent is portrayed only on the one and two gourdes...it would be wrong to think he was a nondescript leader because of this limited appearance."

by Jean-Pierre Cloutier, Writer

1986-88 Presidential photo's and Jean-Pierre Cloutier's article "The Making of a Coup-June 20, 1988" ; a 2 year period in which Haiti had 5 Presidents.

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by Bob Reis, Writer, Historian, anythinganywhere.com

Some Observations about the Collectibles Business & the Web. Some of Bob's wonderful ruminations, although written in 1998, continues to ring true even in today's lightening fast pace of the internet. Bob also has a broad range of articles on his site from folksy, to insightful, to some that are so scholarly they read like an interesting Masters Thesis.