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1000 Leones
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2002-2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Bai Bureh (1840–1908), the Temne warrior chief and leader of the Hut Tax War, occupies the right portion of the note against a multicolour geometric guilloche underprint in red, blue, and yellow. To the left, the national coat of arms is printed in blue intaglio above the Governor and Deputy Governor signature lines, with the date '1st February 2002' at lower left. The bank title 'BANK OF SIERRA LEONE' appears in bold red letterpress at the top, with the denomination '1000' rendered in large black numerals at each corner and 'ONE THOUSAND LEONES' in red along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#24a - 01.02.2002 P#24b - 01.03.2003 P#24c - 04.08.2006 |
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The 1000 Leones denomination entered circulation during Sierra Leone's post-conflict reconstruction period, after the civil war that devastated the country through the 1990s formally ended in January 2002. The timing of this series is not coincidental — restoring functional currency infrastructure was a deliberate part of reestablishing state authority across formerly rebel-held territory.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement was practically obligatory for a central bank rebuilding from near-collapse with limited domestic capacity. The security specification here is modest: watermark and thread only, with no additional optical features, which likely reflects budget constraints during a period of heavy international aid dependency rather than any technical limitation on De La Rue's part.