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500 Francs Guinéens Toutankhamon
| Issuer | Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 500 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Facing effigy of the golden funerary mask of Tutankhamun, rendered in high relief with the nemes headdress and uraeus, occupying the central field. An ankh symbol appears to the lower right of the portrait. The circular legend 'REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE' arcs along the upper periphery, while the inscription 'TOUTANKHAMON' is engraved in the lower field beneath the effigy. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE TOUTANKHAMON (Translation: Republic of Guinea) |
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Guinea's 1970 commemorative program was launched under Sékou Touré's government as a hard-currency earning exercise — these coins were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold directly to Western coin dealers and collectors. Toutankhamon was a calculated choice: the 1922 Howard Carter discovery remained a global cultural fixation, and Egyptian themed issues moved reliably in the European and American collector markets regardless of the issuing country's political situation.
Guinea had no meaningful connection to the subject matter. The series was essentially a sovereign mint-for-export operation, common among newly independent African states navigating acute foreign exchange shortages in the 1960s and 1970s.