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| 表面の説明 | Intaglio portrait of President Ahmed Sékou Touré at left, wearing a traditional cap, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in peach and olive tones. The denomination CINQ CENTS FRANCS appears in large bold lettering at centre-right, accompanied by a sprig of olive branches and the date le 1er MARS 1960. Two facsimile signatures appear at the lower right above the titles DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL and MINISTRE GOUVERNEUR, with the numeral 500 between them and the anti-counterfeiting warning at the base. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | CINQ CENTS FRANCS 500 |
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Guinea's 1960 independence from France left its monetary system in immediate disarray. The country had withdrawn from the CFA franc zone in 1960 under Sékou Touré, an abrupt break that required a functioning currency almost overnight. Thomas De La Rue was the printer of choice for newly independent African states throughout this period, handling several such emergency commissions simultaneously.
The P#14 is scarce in any grade — early Guinean notes circulated heavily in an economy with few banking alternatives, and the humid West African climate was not kind to paper stock of this vintage.