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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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| Value | 5000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing profile bust of Queen Tiye (Tiyi), the ancient Egyptian queen, rendered in a stylized artistic manner evoking Egyptian antiquity, complete with a traditional striped nemes headdress. An ankh symbol appears to the right of the effigy in the field. The circular legend reads 'REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE' along the upper periphery, with the name 'TIYI' inscribed below the bust near the lower rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE TIYI (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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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.