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100 Sylis
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Currency | Syli (1971-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of Samory Touré, the Mandinka resistance leader, occupying the left half of the note, rendered in violet on a light guilloche underprint with multicolour floral rosette at centre-right. The denomination "CENT SYLIS" is printed in large bold letterpress at centre, with the law date "le 1er MARS 1960" below and the year "1971" in a cartouche at the foot. Two facsimile signatures appear beneath the denomination, labelled MINISTRE DES FINANCES and GOUVERNEUR BANQUE CENTRALE, with the anti-counterfeiting warning "TOUT CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR" below. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette in violet illustrating an open-pit bauxite mining scene, with a large crawler-mounted dragline excavator loading ore into a heavy dump truck at centre, additional haulage trucks visible to the left, and a mountainous landscape in the background. The denomination numeral "100" appears at lower left and within an ornate circular guilloche medallion on the right border, flanked by gear-wheel decorative elements. A bold "CENT SYLIS" inscription runs along the lower margin, with the entire composition framed by an intricate geometric and floral guilloche border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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