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1000 Pesetas Guineanas
| Issuer | Banco Central |
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| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial El Banco Central Pagará al Portador Mil Pesetas Guineanas (Translation: Republic of Equatorial Guinea The Central Bank will pay to the bearer One Thousand Guinean Pesetas) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Equatorial Guinea's first domestic currency series, including this note, was introduced in 1969 following independence from Spain in October of that year. The newly established Banco Central issued pesetas guineanas — a transitional currency deliberately named to ease the shift away from the Spanish peseta, which had circulated under colonial administration. The FNMT contract was a natural continuity: Madrid had printed Spanish colonial fiscal instruments for the territory for decades.
The series was short-lived. By 1975, the Macias Nguema regime's economic collapse forced a currency replacement, and many notes from this issue were destroyed or left unredeemed.