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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Occidentale Française - Colonie de la Guinée Française |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green cardboard with a red postage stamp affixed at centre, overprinted in black with the legend VALEUR D'ECHANGE. The stamp vignette is engraved after a design by De La Nézière and executed by Puyplat, with the issuing territory GUINEE and the colonial authority AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANÇAISE indicated in the surrounding inscriptions. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0 f 10 |
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French Guinea's 1920 emergency cardboard issues came out of a genuine small-change crisis — the withdrawal of metal coinage during and after the First World War left West African colonial economies without viable low-denomination currency. The Gouvernement Général authorized individual colonies to produce their own stopgaps, and Guinea's series was among the more modest in circulation volume.
La Nézière was a genuine specialist in West African subjects, having spent years in the region before his career as an illustrator — his involvement here was not incidental. Puyplat's engraving work was closely associated with French colonial printing of this period. Cardboard examples from this series are notoriously fragile; surviving specimens with intact edges are genuinely uncommon.