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500 Francs Guinéens Cleopatre
| Issuer | Republic of Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Weight | 29.08 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 1958-1968 X·ANNIVERSAIRE 1970 500 FRANCS GUINEENS (Translation: 10th Anniversary 500 Guinean Francs) |
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Guinea's 1970 commemorative silver program was issued just over a decade after independence from France, during Sékou Touré's increasingly authoritarian single-party state. The series was produced largely for export — collector markets in Europe and North America — rather than domestic circulation, as Guinea had effectively severed its financial ties with the French monetary zone in 1960 by refusing to join the CFA franc system, a decision that left the country economically isolated and reliant on foreign currency earnings wherever it could find them.