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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 26542639, member: 135271&quot;]Another Haiti coin, an early silver 25 centimes minted in 1817. Good strike for the issue, from clashed dies I noticed.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><i>[ATTACH=full]1691624[/ATTACH] </i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>REPUBLIC OF HAITI</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>AR 25 Centimes (20.6mm, 2.22g, 6h)</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Dated AN 14 (1817) Local mint, Haiti</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Obverse: A . PETION PRESIDENT around bust of President Alexandre Pétion left; AN 14 below</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Reverse: REPUBLIQUE D&#039;HAYTI around coat of arms of Haiti: banners, spears, muskets with fixed bayonets, cannons, and cannonballs behind and around palm tree surmounted with liberty cap; * 25 * C * below</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>References: Numista 10345</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Mintage: unknown</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandre Pétion was born in Port-au-Prince in 1770 to a well-to-do French colonist and a mulatto woman. At the age of 18 he was sent to France to study at the Military Academy in Paris. When the Haitian Revolution broke out in 1791 Pétion returned to Haiti and took part in the revolt, fighting against the rival rebel faction led by the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture. Defeat forced Pétion and his allies back to France; they returned in 1802 with general Charles Leclerc, who had been sent by Napoleon to crush the revolt, along with 32,000 French soldiers. Louverture, who had meantime established himself in Haiti as Governor-General for Life, was captured and deported back to France; but the resistance continued, and Pétion switched sides to support the rebel cause. In 1803, the rebels captured the capital city of Port-au-Prince, and a year later formally declared Haitian independence from France. However, internal conflict continued, and the new country soon split into the northern State (later Kingdom) of Haiti ruled by Henri Christophe, and the southern Republic of Haiti, with Pétion serving as president from 1807 until his death in 1818.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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