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10000 Bipkwele 1979 Spanish Royalty Visit; Pattern
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL 80 UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA 0.917 10.000 BIPKWELE |
| Reverse description | Conjoined busts of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain in right-facing profile occupy the central field, rendered in high relief with fine portraiture detail. The circular legend S. S. M. M. LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA VISITAN GUINEA arcs around the upper periphery, commemorating the royal state visit. The date DICIEMBRE 1979 appears along the lower periphery flanked by raised dots, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in 1968, and relations between Macias Nguema's brutal dictatorship and Madrid were predictably strained. The 1979 visit this pattern commemorates followed the overthrow of Nguema by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in August of that year — a coup that Spain quietly welcomed. The pattern was struck in 1980 as Obiang worked to rehabilitate international ties, and copper examples like this were almost certainly exploratory strikes, never approved for circulation.