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10 000 Francs Guinéens Guinean Franc
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Weight | 15.976 g |
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| Reverse lettering | *1ᵛ MARS 1960* 10,000 FRANCS GUINEENS 1ᵛ MARS 1990 (Translation: 1st of March 1960 10,000 Guinean Francs 1st of March 1990) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Guinea's 1990 gold issues were produced during the tail end of Lansana Conté's first decade in power, a period when the government was actively courting international credibility after the economic wreckage of Sékou Touré's 26-year socialist experiment. Touré had banned private gold ownership and nationalized the mining sector; the irony of issuing gold collector coinage so shortly after his 1984 death was apparently lost on no one in Conakry.
These pieces were almost certainly struck by a European contract mint rather than domestically — Guinea had no meaningful coin production infrastructure of its own at the time.