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1000 Francos CFA Giraffe
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central shield depicting the national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea, featuring a silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) above a ribbon scroll bearing the national motto 'UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA', flanked by six six-pointed stars arranged in an arc above the shield. The circular legend 'REPUBLIC OF GUINEA ECUATORIAL' runs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '1000 FRANCS CFA' is inscribed in the lower field. The coin field exhibits a distinctive hammered or stippled texture surrounding the central device. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2023 ONE TROY OUNCE 999 FINE SILVER |
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Equatorial Guinea is a CFA franc zone member despite having no geographic connection to the West or Central African monetary unions — it joined the Central African CFA bloc in 1985 after abandoning the ekwele following catastrophic economic mismanagement under Francisco Macías Nguema's dictatorship. That monetary history gives these "1000 Francos CFA" issues a peculiar legitimacy gap: the denomination mirrors regional currency, but Equatorial Guinea's coins in this series are minted for the collector market and have never circulated domestically.