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Brief details of each countries status, history, nationality, occupying force,
language and currency information is provided below.

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HAITI

The Western portion of San Domingo in the West Indies.
Became a republic in 1804.

Currency :
• 100 centimes = 1 gourde or piastre.

HAMBURG

A port in North West Germany, formerly a Free City, now part of West Germany.

Currency :
• 16 schillinge = 1 mark.

HANOVER

Currency :
• 1850 12 pfennig = 1 gutegroschen.
• 24 gutengroschen = 1 thaler.
• 1858 10 (new) pfennig = 1 (new) groschen.
• 30 (new) groschen = 1 thaler.

HATAY

A territory of Alexandretta under French control from 1923 to 1938.
Returned to Turkey in 1939.

Currency :
• 100 centiemes = 1 piastre.
• 1938 100 santims = 40 paras; 40 paras = 1 kurus.

HAWAII

A group of islands in the Pacific.
An independent kingdom until 1893.
Became part of the United States of America from 1898.

Currency :
• 100 cents = 1 dollar.

HELIGOLAND

An island off the North coast of Germany.

Currency :
• 1867 16 schillings = 1 mark.
• 1875 100 pfennig = 1 mark.

HOI-HAO (HOIHOw)

An Indo-China post office in China that closed in 1922.

Currency :
• 1901 100 centimes = 1 franc.
• 1918 100 cents = 1 piastre.

HONDURAS

A republic of Central America.
Independent from 1838.

Currency :
• 1866 8 reales = 1 peso.
• 1878 100 centivos = 1 peso.
• 1933 100 centivos = 1 lempira.

HONG KONG

An island Formerly a British Colony.
Occupied by the Japan on 25 December 1941 and returned to British control on 16 September 1945.
Returned to China in 1997.

Currency :
• 100 cents = 1 Hong Kong dollar.

HORTA

A district of the Azores.
Stamps of Azores inscribed HORTA.

Currency :
• 1865 1000 reis = 1 milreis.

HUNGARY

A country in Central Europe. A kingdom until 1918 when it adopted a Soviet style government.
Became a Peoples Republic in 1949.

Currency :
• 1858 100 krajczar = 1 forint.
• 1900 100 fillar (heller) = 1 korona (krone).
• 1926 100 filler = 1 pengo.
• 1946 100 filler = 1 forint.

HYDERABAD

A state in India, now using Indian stamps.

Currency :
• 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee.

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