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10 000 Pesos Vulcanodon
| Issuer | Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 10 000 Pesos (10 000 GWP) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DA GUINÉ BISSAU UNIDADE LUTA PROGRESSO 10 000 PESOS |
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| Mintage | 1994 - Proof - 10,000 |
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Guinea-Bissau's early 1990s silver issues were produced almost entirely for the international collector market — the country had neither the minting infrastructure nor the domestic demand to justify precious-metal coinage for circulation. This piece belongs to a series of dinosaur-themed commemoratives that Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau licensed through external minting houses, a common revenue strategy for cash-strapped post-independence states.
Vulcanodon itself was described from a single partial skeleton recovered in Zimbabwe in 1969, making it one of the earliest known sauropods — though its taxonomic standing has been revised repeatedly since.