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1000 Dobras Flora and Fauna - Seahorse and crab
| Issuer | Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE * 1995 * |
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| Reverse lettering | FLORA E FAUNA 1000 DOBRAS |
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São Tomé e Príncipe's 1990s silver program targeted the international collector market almost exclusively — the domestic economy had no meaningful demand for 1000-dobra commemoratives at any point. The Banco Central contracted these issues largely to generate foreign exchange, a strategy common among small island nations with limited export revenue and donor-dependent budgets.
KM#78 belongs to a thematically grouped Flora and Fauna series from this period, several of which were struck by European mints on behalf of the issuing authority rather than produced domestically.