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5 Cedis Central banking
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 5 Cedis |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Kwame Nkrumah Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel rendered in fine intaglio line work at centre, with an additional oil platform visible in the left background and a tanker vessel to the right. A QR code security element appears at lower right, accompanied by a vignette of cocoa pods and a star, all set within a guilloche-patterned border in blue tones with denomination numerals GH¢5 repeated at the corners. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF GHANA FIVE CEDIS GH¢5 |
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Ghana's 2017 banknote series introduced QR codes as a security feature — an unusually early adoption for a West African central bank, reflecting the country's relatively advanced mobile payment infrastructure and a persistent problem with counterfeiting that had dogged the cedi through the 2010s. Thomas De La Rue has printed Ghanaian currency since the Bank of Ghana's earliest note issues, a relationship that has run largely unbroken for decades.