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100 Pesetas 1996 Olympic Games-Wrestlers
| Issuer | Western Sahara |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 100 Pesetas (100 EHP) |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic occupies the central field, depicting crossed rifle and spear surmounted by a hammer, all beneath a crescent and star motif, flanked by olive branches and supported by a ribbon scroll bearing an Arabic legend. The circular legend 'REPUBLICA ARABE SAHARUI DEMOCRATICA' runs along the upper periphery in Latin characters, while the denomination '100 PESETAS' appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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Western Sahara has no functioning mint, no recognized government capable of issuing currency, and no population using pesetas. These pieces were produced by private minting interests — almost certainly in Spain — and sold directly into the collector market under the banner of a territory that has been administered by Morocco since 1976 and has never had autonomous monetary authority. The "1996 Olympic Games" framing was a common pretext used by such operations throughout the 1990s to generate saleable novelty issues with no genuine circulation history behind them.