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1000 Francos CFA Stegosaurus
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a vivid full-color enamel illustration of a Stegosaurus, depicted in profile walking to the left, rendered in green with distinctive dorsal plates along its spine and a spiked tail. The dinosaur is set against a colorful prehistoric landscape including purple and brown rocky terrain and tropical foliage. The legend JURASSIC DINOSAURS arcs along the upper periphery in raised letters, and the species name STEGOSAURUS is inscribed along the lower periphery, flanked by raised dot stops. A beaded inner border separates the colored central medallion from the dark outer rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | JURASSIC DINOSAURS · STEGOSAURUS· |
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Equatorial Guinea ran an aggressive commemorative program through the early 1990s, contracting foreign mints to produce collector pieces with essentially no connection to the country's economy or history. These issues — dinosaurs, ships, Olympic athletes — were designed entirely for the international novelty market and never meaningfully circulated domestically. The CFA franc itself was administered by the Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, leaving Equatorial Guinea with limited independent monetary policy, which may partly explain the appeal of generating hard currency revenue through novelty coinage.
KM#115 is one of several prehistoric animal issues from the same year, all sharing the same planchet specifications.