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10 Sylis
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 10 Sylis |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE DIX SYLIS le 1er MARS 1960 TOUT CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR 1971 (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea, Ten Sylis, 1st of March 1960, any counterfeiter will be punished by the applicable law, 1971) |
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| Reverse lettering | DIX SYLIS (Translation: Ten Sylis) |
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Guinea's sylis series launched in 1971 replaced the Guinean franc as part of Sékou Touré's broader push to distance the country's institutions from French colonial infrastructure — the syli itself was named after an elephant in Susu, a deliberate rejection of French monetary nomenclature. The Banque Centrale had been established only in 1960 following independence, and these early syli notes were among the first to fully reflect that ideological reorientation.
The printing date of 30 April 1945 almost certainly reflects a plate or archive reference inherited from an earlier design cycle, not the actual production date of this issue.