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1 Cedi
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 1967-1971 |
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| Currency | Second cedi (1967-2007) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Ghanaian coat of arms in fine intaglio engraving, its shield bearing a black star at centre set within a guilloche rosette, flanked at left by a traditional Akan drum and at right by an Okyeame staff with ornamental sword motifs. The denomination numeral '1' appears at lower left, with 'ONE CEDI' in script lettering at the foot. A pale multicolour guilloche underprint fills the field throughout. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF GHANA ONE CEDI 1 |
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Ghana's decimal redenomination of 1965 replaced the pound-based system with the cedi and pesewa, but the first cedi notes were tied too closely — symbolically and politically — to Nkrumah's government. After the February 1966 coup that removed him, the National Liberation Council moved quickly to issue a redesigned series. This note, entering circulation in 1967, was part of that deliberate break.
De La Rue handled the full series. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — modest even by the standards of the period, though consistent with what the Bank of Ghana was specifying for low-denomination issues at the time.