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150 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 150 Pesetas |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REP.DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL LEY 9999 1970 150 PESETAS GUINEANAS (Translation: Republic of Equatorial Guinea .9999 Purity 150 Guinean Pesetas) |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and by 1970 the government of Francisco Macías Nguema was already contracting European mints to produce collector-oriented coinage — a common revenue strategy among newly independent African states with no established mint infrastructure of their own. This piece was struck in Rome at the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato.
Macías Nguema would be executed by firing squad in 1979 after one of the most brutal dictatorships in postcolonial African history, making these early-independence issues the numismatic record of a government whose civilian institutions had almost entirely collapsed within a decade of this coin's production.