Catalog
200 Francs Guinéens Almany Samory Toure
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
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| Thickness | 2.13 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE 1830 1900 - ALMAMY SAMORY TOURE - (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Samory Touré led one of the most prolonged armed resistances against French colonial expansion in West Africa, fighting for nearly two decades before his capture in 1898. Guinea named him a founding national hero, and after Sékou Touré — who claimed descent from him — broke from the franc zone in 1958 and established the independent Guinean franc, commemorative silver issues like this one were part of a deliberate program to anchor the new republic's identity to pre-colonial resistance figures rather than French institutional memory.
The 1969–1970 dating reflects a proof issue series, not a circulating coinage run.