Katalog
| Emittent | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Jahr | 1960 |
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| Druckerei | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | BANQUE CENTRALE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE MILLE FRANCS le 1er MARS 1960 1000 TOUT CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL MINISTRE GOUVERNEUR |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | A finely engraved green intaglio rural scene occupies the central vignette, showing a group of field workers harvesting banana plants, with an ox-drawn cart loaded with cut foliage at left and dense banana plantations extending to the right. Workers carry bundles on their heads in a procession toward the cart, set against a landscape of trees and distant hills under a cloudy sky. The denomination numeral 1000 appears at upper left and lower right, with the legend MILLE FRANCS in a guilloche panel along the top border. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Guinea's independence from France came in October 1958 — the only territory in French West Africa to vote "No" in de Gaulle's referendum, a decision that prompted France to withdraw all technical and financial assistance almost immediately. The Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée was established to fill the resulting institutional vacuum, and this 1960 series was among the first issues it produced. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, a common arrangement for newly independent Francophone states that lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
Pick 15 is the high denomination of the inaugural series. Surviving examples in any grade are harder to locate than the lower values, consistent with typical hoarding patterns for top-denomination notes in post-independence economies running chronic hard currency shortages.