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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Sékou Touré at left, set against a yellow-orange guilloche underprint with a green olive branch vignette at right bearing the denomination CENT FRANCS and date 1er MARS 1960. Two signature lines appear at lower centre, attributed to the Directeur Général and the Ministre Gouverneur, with the numeral 100 in a pink guilloche panel below; the anti-counterfeiting legend runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of two agricultural workers harvesting pineapples in a field, a woman at left stooping over a basket of fruit and a man at right bent over the crop rows, with a mountainous landscape and body of water rendered in the background. Geometric guilloche panels flank the scene on both sides, and the denomination numeral 100 appears in arrow-shaped cartouches at lower left and right. |
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Guinea's 100 Francs of 1960 was part of the first autonomous issue following independence from France in 1958 — the new Banque Centrale replacing the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo, which had previously handled currency for the entire French West African franc zone. Sékou Touré's government was the only one in the 1958 referendum to vote against de Gaulle's proposed French Community, which meant Guinea had to establish its monetary infrastructure faster and more independently than any of its neighbors.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, a common choice for newly independent Francophone African states in this period despite the obvious irony of routing currency production through London rather than Paris.