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10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Reference(s) | P#11 |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in intaglio portrays a bare-chested male worker in the foreground, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding a tool, turned slightly toward the viewer; behind him extends an open-cast mining scene with mechanical excavation equipment, ore wagons, and a landscape of rocky spoil heaps dotted with palm trees. The composition is framed by guilloche side panels and surmounted by the denomination panel "DIX MILLE FRANCS" flanked by numeral cartouches, all rendered in warm brown and ochre tones. |
| Reverse lettering | DIX MILLE FRANCS 10000 |
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Guinea's 1958 independence from France created an immediate problem: the new republic needed its own currency fast, and Western printing houses weren't the obvious choice for a government aligned with Sékou Touré's pan-African socialist program. Státní tiskárna cenin in Prague — the Czechoslovak state security printer — was a natural partner for newly independent nations in the Soviet orbit, and Guinea became one of its early African clients.
The 10,000 franc denomination was the highest in the inaugural series, issued just as Guinea was establishing the Guinean franc as a replacement for the CFA franc after de Gaulle cut off all French financial assistance following the 1958 referendum.