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2 Leones
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF SIERRA LEONE promise to pay on demand the sum of TWO LEONES COMMEMORATING THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY CONFERENCE FREETOWN 1980 1ST JULY 1980 GOVERNOR DEPUTY GOVERNOR DIRECTORS |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF SIERRA LEONE TWO LEONES THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED |
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The Bank of Sierra Leone's early note series, including this 1980 issue, was printed by Thomas De La Rue throughout — a relationship typical of Anglophone West African central banks that inherited their institutional frameworks from British colonial banking arrangements. Sierra Leone had held its own currency since the Leone's introduction in 1964, replacing the West African pound, but the 2 Leone denomination in this period circulated heavily in everyday transactions and wore quickly in the humid coastal climate.
P#11 is the third printer's run for this denomination following independence-era issues, with De La Rue's watermark the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — modest by the standards of what the same printer was producing for other clients at the time.