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50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Ahmed Sékou Touré at left, rendered in brown tones against a multicolour guilloche underprint of pink, green, and blue. To the right, the large numeral '50' appears within a hexagonal vignette flanked by olive branches, with the date 'le 1er MARS 1960' inscribed across it. Two facsimile signatures appear at bottom centre, captioned DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL and MINISTRE GOUVERNEUR respectively, above the anti-counterfeiting legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE CENTRALE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE CINQUANTE FRANCS le 1er MARS 1960 DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL MINISTRE GOUVERNEUR TOUT CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI PAR LA LOI EN VIGUEUR (Translation: CENTRAL BANK OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA / FIFTY FRANCS / March 1, 1960 / GENERAL DIRECTOR / MINISTER GOVERNOR / COUNTERFEITERS WILL BE PUNISHED BY APPLICABLE LAW) |
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Guinea's first banknotes were issued immediately following independence from France in October 1958, after Sékou Touré's government voted "Non" in the de Gaulle referendum — the only French West African territory to do so — and was promptly cut off from the CFA franc zone. The 1960 series, printed by Thomas De La Rue in London, established the Guinean franc as a fully sovereign currency at a moment of deliberate political rupture with Paris.
The P#12 is among the lower denominations of that inaugural series. De La Rue's watermark security on these early notes was relatively basic by the firm's own standards of the period.