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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 223520, member: 8012&quot;]<b>Sierra Leone redux</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I was to Sierra Leone several times in the years 1993-2002.&nbsp; The notes are very colorful.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember much about coins though - I wasn&#039;t a &quot;collector&quot; back then.&nbsp; However, I did manage to save a few nice notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last couple of times I was there, ti was during the UN intervention.&nbsp; The US dollar was, by far, the preferred&nbsp; currency everywhere from the supermarkets to the little stalls in the market.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful country.&nbsp; Beautiful people.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they&#039;ve been dealt a tough hand.&nbsp; In a nutshell, they were cursed with having lots of diamonds laying all over their countryside.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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