25 Sylis

Issuer	Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée
Year	1971
Type	Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse description	Intaglio portrait of King Behanzin of Dahomey in three-quarter view to the right, rendered in dark brown, occupies the right field; the king is dressed in traditional robes and holds a ceremonial staff. The centre carries the denomination vignette "VINGT-CINQ SYLIS" set over a multicolour guilloche rosette, flanked by the issue date "le 1er MARS 1960" below, with two manuscript signatures above their respective titles at lower centre. Numeral denominators "25" appear in ornamental cartouches at lower left and lower right, with the issuing authority legend across the top panel and the anti-counterfeiting legend along the bottom margin.
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Reverse description	The central vignette presents a pastoral scene engraved in intaglio: a herdsman tends a large herd of longhorn cattle on an open savanna plain, with palm trees, tropical foliage, and a radiating sunburst sky in the background. A decorative banana plant and an ornamental geometric cartouche occupy the left margin, while a guilloche rosette enclosing the numeral "25" anchors the right margin. The denomination legend "VINGT-CINQ SYLIS" is lettered in bold across the lower panel, framed above and below by intricate geometric border ornaments.
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