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5000 Francs Guinéens Tiyi
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Currency | Old franc (1959-1971) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE TIYI (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guinea issued this coin in 1970 as part of a prestige gold series celebrating figures from ancient African history, produced during Sékou Touré's increasingly authoritarian single-party state. Tiyi — often rendered Tiye — was the commoner-born Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten, and her inclusion reflects Touré's pan-African ideology, which actively sought cultural continuity between sub-Saharan Africa and ancient Egypt.
The series was almost certainly struck by a European contractor rather than in Guinea itself, as the country had no domestic minting capacity at the time.