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50 Cauris
| Issuer | Guinea |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 50 Cauris (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | · REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE · 1971 (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guinea's 1971 coinage series was issued three years after Sékou Touré's government severed the country from the West African CFA franc zone, a politically motivated break that required Guinea to field its own independent currency. The syli system introduced that year replaced the Guinean franc, with the cauri as its subdivision — the name itself a direct reference to the cowrie shells historically used as currency across West Africa.
Aluminium was the only practical choice for low-denomination coinage in a country that had deliberately isolated itself from French monetary infrastructure and was facing chronic shortages of hard currency reserves.