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1000 Bipkwele Juan Carlos I Royal Visit; Trial Strike; Silver
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Diameter | 34.4 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | S. M. DON JUAN CARLOS I VISITA GUINEA · DICIEMBRE 1979 · |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Juan Carlos I made a state visit to Equatorial Guinea in 1979, a remarkable diplomatic gesture toward a country that had only recently emerged from the brutal eleven-year dictatorship of Francisco Macías Nguema, whose regime had massacred or driven into exile roughly a third of the population. Spain's interest in reestablishing ties was partly strategic, partly humanitarian — Macías had been executed by firing squad just months before the king's arrival.
This trial strike in .925 silver was never released for general circulation. Such essai-type pieces from Equatorial Guinea's early post-Macías period were produced in extremely limited quantities, primarily for archival and diplomatic purposes.