Catalog
5 Leones
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Size | 128 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the historic Fourah Bay College building in Freetown, rendered in intaglio, with the national coat of arms positioned to the upper left. A portrait of abolitionist Sengbe Pieh faces left at right, accompanied by the inscription 'Sengbe Pieh 1813–1879'. A multicoloured diamond-pattern guilloche border frames the note on all sides. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Dam set against a landscape of forested hills and a reservoir, rendered in dark blue and maroon tones over a light guilloche underprint. Denomination numerals '5' appear at upper left and upper right in dark blue, with a multicoloured diamond-pattern guilloche border encircling the entire note. The printer's imprint 'DE LA RUE' appears at lower left. |
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The 2022 reissue of this denomination continues a series that De La Rue has produced for Sierra Leone across multiple decades, though the security specification here is notably lean — watermark and thread only, with none of the optically variable ink or color-shifting elements that have become routine on lower-risk African issues of comparable face value. Whether that reflects a cost-driven brief from the Bank of Sierra Leone or a deliberate tier decision is not publicly documented.