Currency history
Guinean syli
Guinean syli: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- French franc
Its place in the family
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The story
Guinea restores the franc. Use changeover date rather than 1985 note-series dating. [1]
Turning points
Redenomination
The syli replaces the first Guinean franc. Contemporary notice establishes changeover; 1971 note-series dates are not adoption dates. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C759 ↗
- US Treasury · US Treasury — Reporting rates, contemporary 1972 amendment C758 ↗
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“Guinean syli.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000824.html