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100 Leones
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1988-1990 |
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| Value | 100 Leones (100 SLL) |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait of President Dr. Joseph Saidu Momoh is set against a geometric guilloche underprint in teal and olive tones. The national coat of arms bearing the motto UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE is positioned at centre, accompanied by a cargo ship vignette at lower centre and traditional diamond-pattern decorative elements at left. Facsimile signatures of the Governor and Deputy Governor appear below the coat of arms, with the issue date at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF SIERRA LEONE ONE HUNDRED LEONES |
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Thomas De La Rue printed this series across a three-year window bracketing one of Sierra Leone's more turbulent fiscal periods — the country was operating under an IMF structural adjustment programme and suffering severe inflation that would eventually necessitate a complete currency reform in the early 1990s. The 100 Leones, effectively a mid-range note when introduced, was eroded to near-insignificance in purchasing power by the time the series closed.
Watermark-only security was already conservative by late 1980s standards, and the notes circulated hard in a cash-dependent economy with limited banking infrastructure. Heavily worn examples vastly outnumber clean ones.