{"id":46511,"date":"2025-09-14T05:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=46511"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:25:33","slug":"guinea-new-sig-date-2020-20000-franc-note-b344b-confirmed-duplicate-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=46511","title":{"rendered":"Guinea new sig\/date (2024) 20,000-franc note (B344c) confirmed introduced 02.04.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 12 April 2025, 1.05 million of these notes dated 2024 were stolen in transit between Mamou and Kindia. The serial numbers are known to police, but have not yet been made public.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1743\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f.jpg 1743w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f-465x217.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_f-695x324.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1743px) 100vw, 1743px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1746\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r.jpg 1746w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r-1536x720.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r-465x218.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guinea_BCRG_20000_francs_2024.00.00_B344c_PNL_BH_159497_r-695x326.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1746px) 100vw, 1746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like B344b, but new signatures (Soumah\/Kaba), new date (2024), and new 5-mm green-to-blue windowed security thread with demetalized <em>GNF 20000<\/em>. It appears that the pigeons in SPARK Orbital on front may have changed also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Claudio Marana and Alex Zlotin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 April 2025, 1.05 million of these notes dated 2024 were stolen in transit between Mamou and Kindia. The serial numbers are known to police, but have not yet been made public. Like B344b, but new signatures (Soumah\/Kaba), new date (2024), and new 5-mm green-to-blue windowed security thread with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=46511\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,338],"tags":[47],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-46511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-new-variety","tag-guinea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47802,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46511\/revisions\/47802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}