1 Leone

Beschrijving voorzijde	Portrait vignette of President Siaka Stevens at left centre, set against a fine guilloche underprint in olive and orange tones. To the right, a circular commemorative overprint in red reads 'COMMEMORATING THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY CONFERENCE · FREETOWN 1980', dated '1ST JULY 1980'. Three facsimile signatures of the Governor, Deputy Governor, and Director appear at centre right, with the serial number printed twice in the lower left area.
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Opschrift keerzijde	BANK OF SIERRA LEONE 1 ONE LEONE
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Opmerkingen	The 1 Leone note of 1980 falls within the P#5–P#10 series that Bank of Sierra Leone issued through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, a period of deepening economic difficulty under Siaka Stevens's government. Stevens had declared Sierra Leone a one-party state in 1978, and the leone was already under pressure from declining diamond revenues and IMF-monitored austerity — not that any of that registers in De La Rue's clean, technically reliable print job. Three signatures on a note of this denomination is notable. The inclusion of a Director alongside the Governor and Deputy Governor was not universal practice across African central banks of the period.