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1000 Ekuele Corisco island
| Issuer | Banco de Corisco |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse description | Blue and multicolor underprint with guilloche rosette at right. Central vignette of a tortoise in natural habitat. Serial number in green at lower left, denomination numeral 1000 in large green figures at lower right. Issuer name and date along upper margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE CORISCO 1000 EKUELE 1000 1000 EL CAJERO GENERAL EL GOBERNADOR |
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Corisco is a small Equatoguinean island in the Bight of Biafra with no central bank, no monetary authority, and no legal framework for issuing currency — which makes the Banco de Corisco a fiction, and this note a fantasy piece rather than a genuine issuer obligation. These polymer items circulate among collectors and occasionally surface in online marketplaces marketed ambiguously as "local currency," which they are not. No government, territory, or recognized authority has ever sanctioned the ekuele as a denomination for Corisco specifically, and the ekuele itself was replaced in Equatorial Guinea by the ekwele and eventually the CFA franc decades prior.