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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 2015-2022 |
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| Currency | New franc (1985-date) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette at left of a young Guinean woman with braided hair holding two doves in her hands, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The national coat of arms appears at center against a multicolored guilloche underprint of geometric patterns, with the large numeral '1000' in red-brown at lower center and right. Two facsimile signatures appear at lower right, attributed to the Ministre des Finances and the Gouverneur Banque Centrale, with the date year printed below the coat of arms. |
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| Variants | P#48a - 2015 P#48b - 2017 |
| Comments |
Guinea's central bank has issued multiple redesigns of the 1000 Francs over the years, and this series reflects the broader monetary stabilization effort following the hyperinflationary episodes that devastated the Guinean franc in the late 2000s — at one point the currency lost so much purchasing power that this denomination was effectively worthless for most transactions. By 2015, when this series entered circulation, inflation had been brought under partial control through IMF-supported fiscal measures, and the 1000 Francs note regained some practical utility.
Color-shifting ink on a West African mid-denomination note is not a given — its inclusion here reflects increased counterfeiting pressure across the region during this period.