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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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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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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows an open-cast bauxite mining scene with heavy dump trucks and a large crane loading ore, set against a hilly landscape; to the right stands an intaglio-rendered traditional African ceremonial mask figure. Geometric African-pattern borders frame the top and bottom of the note, and the denomination numeral '1000' appears at lower left and lower right flanking the central legend. |
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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.