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1000 Francs Guinéens John and Robert Kennedy
| Issuer | Banque de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE 1917-1963 1925-1968 JOHN F. - ROBERT F. KENNEDY (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Guinea issued a series of commemorative gold coins in 1969–70 honoring foreign political figures, part of a broader pattern among newly independent African states of using bullion commemoratives as both hard-currency earners and diplomatic gestures. The Kennedy pairing — John assassinated in 1963, Robert in 1968 — made the issue timely in a grim way; both deaths were still raw, and the Kennedy name carried enormous symbolic weight across Francophone Africa.
These coins were almost certainly produced for export sale rather than domestic circulation. Guinea's economy under Sékou Touré had largely severed ties with the French franc zone by this point, and a 4-gram gold piece had no practical role in everyday trade.