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| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of a young girl facing left occupies the centre of the note, with an intaglio-printed traditional drum to the right. The design is framed by geometric guilloche borders with African motifs running along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the form of a portrait visible against light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Guinea's 2006 note issue came during a period of severe economic deterioration under Lansana Conté, whose government was financing budget deficits largely through central bank money creation. Inflation was running above 30 percent annually by mid-decade, meaning a 1000-franc note had already lost much of its purchasing power before it reached the counter.
P#40 belongs to a series that saw multiple reprints with minimal design changes — distinguishing issue years requires checking the date printed on the note itself, as the series ran through the late Conté period and into the transitional governments that followed his death in December 2008.