North Haiti. Henri Christophe silver Specimen Pattern 30 Sols 1808 SP64 PCGS, Birmingham mint, KM-Pn8. Quite Prooflike, yielding a hard flash at the turn of the wrist from the slate gray fields, adorned by the seated Lady Liberty. Commercial agent of Henry Christopher Jean Gabriel Peltier contacted Matthew Boulton on January 25, 1808, to manufacture dies for three denominations, 30, 15 and 7.5 sols, equivalent to the English 1 shilling, sixpence and threepence. The dies, while differing from the original sketches furnished by Peltier which stipulated an obverse with a four-line inscription "ETAT - d'HAITY - PIECE DE - 30 SOLS" encircled in a laurel wreath, were skillfully made, as evidenced by the present specimen. They were manufactured at a cost of 105 guineas and delivered to Peltier by John Woodward (agent of Boulton, Watt & Co. in London) on August 3, 1808.

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