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10 000 Pesos Elephant
| Issuer | Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Diameter | 32.4 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DA GUINÉ-BISSAU 10 000 PESOS |
| Reverse description | A large African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is depicted in high relief, shown in a three-quarter frontal pose with trunk lowered, standing atop a stylised outline map of the African continent rendered in the field. The species name ELEFANTE appears diagonally in the left field. The conservation legend DEFESA DA NATUREZA arcs along the periphery, with DEFESA DA ascending on the left and NATUREZA descending on the right. The date 1993 is inscribed in the lower field beneath the map motif. |
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Guinea-Bissau's national bank issued a series of silver wildlife coins in the early 1990s as part of a broader African trend of producing collector issues for the hard-currency export market — revenue that mattered considerably for one of the world's poorest economies following years of post-independence instability. The Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau had itself only been established after the country's separation from the Cape Verde monetary union in 1975.
These pieces were never intended for domestic circulation and were largely distributed through European numismatic wholesalers.