5 Leones

Emittente	Bank of Sierra Leone
Anno	1980
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Stampatore	Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom
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Descrizione del dritto	Portrait vignette of President Siaka Stevens at left, wearing a traditional cap, set against a purple and violet guilloche underprint. Three facsimile signatures appear at centre — Governor, Deputy Governor, and two Directors — alongside a decorative leaf sprig. A commemorative circular inscription at right reads 'COMMEMORATING THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY CONFERENCE · FREETOWN 1980', dated 1st July 1980, with the numeral '5' in rosette panels at each corner.
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Descrizione del rovescio	Central vignette of the Parliament building in Freetown, rendered in fine intaglio line work with a modernist architectural style, flanked by a multicolour guilloche rosette at left and the national coat of arms at upper right. Tropical foliage vignettes appear in the lower corners, and the printer's imprint 'THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED' is visible at the base.
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Commenti	Sierra Leone's 1980 currency reform followed the country's transition to a republic in 1971 and the gradual displacement of the Leone's earlier parity arrangements. By 1980, inflation was beginning to erode purchasing power meaningfully, and the 5 Leones note — a mid-range denomination — would have seen heavy everyday use before eventually being replaced by higher-denomination issues as the decade wore on. De La Rue's involvement was continuous across multiple Sierra Leone series; the P#12 shares its basic security architecture with other denominations in the set, relying on a watermark alone without the foil or security thread features introduced in later printings.