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150 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1969-1975) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea is depicted in the upper central field, featuring a shield with a silk-cotton tree above a scroll bearing the national motto UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA, flanked by two crossed elephant tusks curving upward across the field. Six stars arc above the shield along the upper rim. The fineness mark LEY 9999 appears to the left and the date 1970 to the right in the mid-field. The denomination 150 is prominently displayed in the lower field, with the legend REP.DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL arcing around the upper border and PESETAS GUINEANAS along the lower border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and within two years Francisco Macías Nguema's government contracted the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato in Rome to produce a series of commemorative issues — this among them. The arrangement was purely practical: the fledgling nation had no mint infrastructure of its own, and Rome offered both technical capacity and .999 fine silver at scale.
Macías would be convicted of genocide and executed by firing squad in 1979, making the entire early coinage of his regime an uncomfortable artifact of one of postcolonial Africa's most brutal governments.