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| | The Cedi Shuffle - Ghana - Mark Moxon, Travel Writer |
 | | A couple of years ago there were around 8000 cedi to the pound; now it's around 13,000, which is great news if you're a traveller with pounds in your pocket, but awful news if you're a Ghanaian trying to save his cedis. |
 | | The cedi was launched in 1965, when the largest note was the rare and valuable 100 cedi note, though the one cedi note was the cornerstone of the economy. |
 | | By 1984 the bank had started issuing 200 cedi notes, but as the economic slowdown of the 1980s kicked in, higher notes of 500 cedis and 1000 cedis appeared in 1986 and 1991. |
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