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50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Size | 129 × 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette in brown tones illustrating an open-pit bauxite mining operation, with a processing tower and conveyor structure at left, a bulldozer at centre, and a crawler crane at right, set against a mountainous landscape. Geometric triangular border ornaments frame the left and right margins. The denomination legend appears in a guilloche band at top, with the numeral '50' repeated in decorated cartouches at lower left and lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Guinea's first banknotes were issued immediately following independence from France in October 1958, after Sékou Touré's government voted "Non" in the de Gaulle referendum — the only French West African territory to do so — and was promptly cut off from the CFA franc zone. The 1960 series, printed by Thomas De La Rue in London, established the Guinean franc as a fully sovereign currency at a moment of deliberate political rupture with Paris.
The P#12 is among the lower denominations of that inaugural series. De La Rue's watermark security on these early notes was relatively basic by the firm's own standards of the period.