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5 Sylis
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 5 Sylis |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) at right, rendered in fine line engraving against a pink guilloche rosette underprint at centre bearing the denomination legend "CINQ SYLIS" in blue. The bank title "BANQUE CENTRALE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE" runs across the top in blue letterpress, with two facsimile signatures below identified as Ministre des Finances and Gouverneur Banque Centrale, flanking the date "le 1er MARS 1960"; the print year "1980" appears in a cartouche along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | A monochrome blue vignette occupies the central field, portraying workers carrying harvest baskets on their heads as they walk through a banana plantation, with dense palm foliage framing the scene on both sides and a radiating sunburst underprint in the background. The denomination numeral "5" appears in the upper-left corner and at lower right within the ornamental border. The inscription "CINQ SYLIS" is set in letterpress along the lower margin. |
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Guinea's 1980 Sylis notes were printed during a period of acute economic dysfunction under Sékou Touré's government, when the country had been effectively isolated from the Bretton Woods institutions for years following a complete break with the IMF. The Sylis itself was a non-convertible currency by design — Touré's ideology required it — which meant these notes circulated in a closed, largely barter-supplemented economy where the official exchange rate bore little relation to reality.
P#22 is among the lower denominations of the final Sylis series before Touré's death in 1984 prompted a currency overhaul and eventual reintroduction of the Franc Guinéen in 1985.