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100 leones notes were introduced in 1988, followed by 500 leones in 1991, 1000 and 5000 leones in 1993, 2000 leones in the year 2000 and 10,000 Leone in 2004. The original series of notes (1964-1974) depicted the famous 300 year old Cottonwood Tree and Court building in central Freetown.
The economy of Sierra Leone is $7.41 billion by gross domestic product as of 2024. [20] Since the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002, the economy is gradually recovering with a gross domestic product growth rate between 4 and 7%. [ 20 ]
The dollar was a currency issued in Sierra Leone between 1791 and 1805. It was subdivided into 100 cents and was issued by the Sierra Leone Company . The dollar was pegged to sterling at a rate of 1 dollar = 4 shillings 2 pence .
Sierra Leone, [a] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is 73,252 km 2 (28,283 sq mi). [11] It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests.
470 million USD [1] Website: bsl.gov.sl: The Bank of Sierra Leone is the central bank of Sierra Leone. It issues the country's currency, known as the Leone.
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Sierra Leone is a member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the Commonwealth, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank (AFDB), the Mano River Union (MRU), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
United States-Sierra Leone relations date back at least to 1748 when the London firm of Grant, Sargent, and Oswald rebuilt the abandoned trading fort at Bunce Island and focused on supplying slaves to Charleston, South Carolina where local rice planters paid a premium for slaves from Sierra Leone and the neighboring areas in West Africa's Rice Coast because of their specialized knowledge and ...