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5.000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Executed in purple intaglio on white paper, the reverse presents a central scenic vignette of a Guinean woman in elaborate traditional headdress and attire at left, with a village landscape of thatched-roof round huts extending across the middle ground, and palm trees visible in the distance. The denomination CINQ MILLE FRANCS is inscribed in bold letterpress along the upper border, with the numeral 5000 repeated at lower left and lower right. A red diagonal SPECIMEN overprint is applied across the design, and the entire composition is framed by an intricate geometric guilloche border. |
| Reverse lettering | CINQ MILLE FRANCS 5000 SPÉCIMEN |
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Guinea's 1960 independence from France made an immediate rupture with the CFA franc zone a political necessity — Sékou Touré had rejected de Gaulle's constitutional referendum in 1958, and France responded by withdrawing all technical and financial support almost overnight. The new Guinean franc, of which this is among the highest denominations, was introduced with considerable urgency under those circumstances.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, which was a deliberate break from the Banque de France printing relationships that had served French West Africa. Pick 15A is notably scarce in circulated grades, likely reflecting the economic instability that followed Guinea's rapid isolation from French monetary infrastructure.