The currency abbreviation for the Sierra Leone leone , the currency for the Republic of Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa. The Sierra Leone leone is made up of 100 cents and is often presented with the symbol Le, in the form Le100 for 100 leones.
|||The leone replaced the British West African pound as the official currency of Sierra Leone in 1964 at a rate of 2:1. In June of 1986, in order to correct constant overvaluation, a floating exchange rate regime was adopted.