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100 Cedis
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Value | 100 Cedis |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF GHANA THIS NOTE IS ISSUED ON STATUTORY AUTHORITY AND IS LEGAL TENDER IN GHANA FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT ONE HUNDRED CEDIS ¢100 GOVERNOR |
| Reverse description | The full width of the reverse is occupied by a finely engraved intaglio vignette of Kumasi Central Hospital, executed in purple with meticulous linear detail across the multi-storey modern façade and surrounding grounds. A paved foreground path draws the eye toward the building entrance, with landscaped borders to either side. The denomination ¢100 appears in bold numerals at lower right, with the institution name lettered above the vignette. |
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Ghana's 1965 issue came just months before the February 1966 military coup that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah while he was en route to Hanoi. Notes from this series were not immediately withdrawn — the National Liberation Council kept Bank of Ghana paper in circulation during the transition — but the political rupture that followed reshaped the entire currency program, and higher denominations like this one attracted particular scrutiny during post-coup financial audits.
J.W.K. Harlley, whose signature appears here, was Commissioner of Police at the time and one of the key figures in organizing the coup itself. His presence on a note from the Nkrumah period gives this issue an uncomfortable biographical edge that no other signature in the series carries.