Old Sierra Leonean leone
1 articleThe old Sierra Leonean leone used ISO code SLL and represented the currency scale in place before the current SLE leone. Issued by the Bank of Sierra Leone, it circulated through old-leone banknotes and coins divided into cents. A one-thousand-to-one redenomination replaced SLL with SLE, changing the numeric scale without reusing the former code. Historical prices and cash series must therefore be labeled carefully to avoid mixing the two versions.
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