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1000 Francos CFA Spannörter
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 28.8 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Equatorial Guinea has a long history of issuing coins with little practical monetary purpose — the country formally uses the Central African CFA franc, administered by the BEAC, but retains the right to issue its own commemorative and circulation coinage under that monetary union's framework. The 1996 "Spannörter" issue belongs to a wave of foreign-market collectibles produced by Equatorial Guinea throughout the 1990s, most of which never circulated within the country at all and were sold directly to the European collector trade.
"Spannörter" refers to a series of historic German coins, suggesting this piece was produced specifically for the German numismatic market.