Catalog
10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 2007-2008 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of a young girl at left centre against a green guilloche underprint, with the national arms vignette at centre bearing the date "le 1er MARS 1960" above and two facsimile signatures below for the Ministre des Finances and the Gouverneur de la Banque Centrale. A pineapple and coffee beans appear at lower right, with the denomination numeral "10000" repeated vertically at far right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10000 DIX MILLE FRANCS GUINEENS |
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Guinea's 10 000 Franc note entered circulation during a particularly volatile political period — Lansana Conté died in December 2008 after decades in power, and the military junta that immediately seized control inherited an economy already damaged by years of mismanagement and inflation. By that point, 10 000 Francs had become a workaday denomination rather than a high-value one, reflecting how far the currency had eroded since independence.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is routine for Francophone West Africa, where BCRG repeatedly contracted London-based security printers rather than regional alternatives. The security package — thread and watermark only — is modest for the denomination.