{"product_id":"sierra-leone-p-34-1-leone-2022-u-war-chief-bai-bureh","title":"Sierra Leone P-34 1 Leone 2022 UNC—War Chief Bai Bureh","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBanknote Characteristics\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVarieties:\u003c\/strong\u003e Only one variety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFront:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coat_of_arms_of_Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCoat of arms\u003c\/a\u003e; carvings; portrait of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bai_Bureh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBai Bureh\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBack:\u003c\/strong\u003e Telecommunications satellite dish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWatermark:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lion head; electrotype \"1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120 × 62 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIssuing entity:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bank_of_Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBank of Sierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De_La_Rue\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDe La Rue\u003c\/a\u003e, London, United Kingdom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon (PKMK), Governor; Dr Ibrahim L. Stevens (DILS), First Deputy Governor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCountry:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBritish Colony of Sierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e (1808–1961)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndependent Sierra Leone (1961–1971)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRepublic of Sierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e (1971–date)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Rebel the British Respected: Bai Bureh\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's something quietly remarkable about putting \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bai_Bureh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBai Bureh\u003c\/a\u003e on a banknote. He spent his life fighting the very colonial system that would eventually produce the nation now honoring him. That tension — between resistance and legacy — is exactly what makes him worth knowing about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBai Bureh (c. 1840–1908) was a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temne_people\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTemne\u003c\/a\u003e ruler and war chief in what is now \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e — skilled, pragmatic, and politically astute long before the British gave him a reason to fight them. When the colonial administration imposed the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hut_Tax_War\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHut Tax\u003c\/a\u003e in 1898 — a levy on dwellings that many communities correctly understood as a mechanism of control over their land and autonomy — Bai Bureh organized resistance. Not a riot. A campaign. He ran a disciplined guerrilla war that tied down British forces for months, using terrain, mobility, and deep local support to compensate for being catastrophically outgunned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes his story stick is how he was remembered on both sides. To Sierra Leoneans, he is a founding hero of resistance — the man who said no before it was fashionable. To the British at the time, he was documented as a capable and honorable adversary, which for the colonial military was about as close to a compliment as it got. He was eventually captured and exiled to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gold_Coast_(British_colony)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGold Coast\u003c\/a\u003e, but later allowed to return home, where he died in 1908.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis image on this note — issued in 2022, over a century after his death — is a deliberate act of national reclamation. The once-rebel is now the face of the currency. The colonial tax collector is gone. That's the whole story, compressed into a banknote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Sierra Leone\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSierra Leone\u003c\/a\u003e — Portuguese for \"Lion Mountains\" — sits on the West African coast and has one of the most dramatic modern histories on the continent. It was founded in part as a settlement for freed slaves, making \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freetown\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFreetown\u003c\/a\u003e one of the oldest cities in sub-Saharan Africa with that particular origin. It gained independence from Britain in 1961, endured a devastating \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierra_Leone_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecivil war\u003c\/a\u003e from 1991 to 2002 — notorious for the systematic use of amputations as a terror weapon by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revolutionary_United_Front\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRUF\u003c\/a\u003e — and has been rebuilding since. The country holds some of the world's largest deposits of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diamond\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ediamonds\u003c\/a\u003e, which funded the war as much as they could have funded development. In 2022, Sierra Leone redenominated its currency, dropping three zeros — the old 1,000 Leones became the new 1 Leone — a fresh start written into the money itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Money Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799017226551,"sku":"SL34U","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/7165\/3431\/files\/34o_90b02d91-f0aa-4f74-a934-508cc522bd18.jpg?v=1774652149","url":"https:\/\/worldmoneystore.com\/products\/sierra-leone-p-34-1-leone-2022-u-war-chief-bai-bureh","provider":"World Money Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}