100 Pesetas Guineanas

Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain on 12 October 1968, and this note — P#1 of the new nation — followed within months. The currency itself, the peseta guineana, was a deliberate bridging unit, maintaining nominal continuity with the Spanish colonial peso to ease the transition. The Banco Central was established specifically to issue it, though the institution had little independent monetary infrastructure at the outset; the entire print run was handled in Madrid by the same state printer that produced Spanish domestic currency.

The peseta guineana lasted only until 1975, when Macías Nguema replaced it with the ekwele as part of a broader rupture with Spanish economic ties.