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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée |
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| Year | 2006-2012 |
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| Value | 500 Francs Guinéens |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of a smiling woman wearing a headscarf and hoop earrings; at centre, the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Guinea set within a guilloche underprint. Denominations and bank title inscriptions frame the design, with an anti-counterfeiting legend across the lower portion. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Guinea's central bank issued this series during a period of acute political instability — President Lansana Conté died in December 2008, triggering an immediate military coup led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, followed by the September 2009 massacre of opposition supporters at a Conakry stadium. Notes from this dating range passed through all of it.
The 500-franc denomination had limited purchasing power by this point. Guinea's franc had been chronically weakened by decades of monetary mismanagement stretching back to the Sékou Touré years, and street transactions at this value were essentially small change.
Watermark-only security at this tier was already minimal for the period.