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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE CENT FRANCS LE 2 OCTOBRE 1958 MINISTRE DE L'ÉCONOMIE GÉNÉRALE MINISTRE DES FINANCES TOUT CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR |
| Reverse description | Central vignette in intaglio shows a woman in profile at centre-right, adorned with elaborate coiffure, bead necklace and earrings, carrying an infant on her back; a village scene with several thatched-roof round huts and tropical foliage occupies the background. The denomination numeral 100 appears in each upper corner, with the legend CENT FRANCS in a panel along the lower margin. |
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Guinea declared independence from France on 2 October 1958 — the only territory in the entire French West Africa referendum to vote "No" to de Gaulle's proposed community. France's response was immediate and punitive: all technical and administrative personnel were withdrawn within weeks, and France reportedly ordered the destruction of infrastructure, office equipment, and currency stocks before departing. This note is a direct consequence of that rupture. With no access to the Banque de France or its printing networks, Sékou Touré's government turned to Czechoslovakia, then firmly within the Soviet bloc, to produce Guinea's first independent currency.
Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague was an unusual choice for a Francophone African issuer, and it signals the geopolitical alignments Guinea made in those first months of independence.