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150 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Engraver(s) | Guerrino Mattia Monassi |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-length standing figure of Roma, the personification of the city of Rome, is depicted at center in classical attire, holding a spear or scepter in her left hand and raising her right hand in a gesture of authority. Two monumental neoclassical buildings flank the figure in the background, evoking the civic grandeur of the Italian capital. A border of evenly spaced five-pointed stars encircles the design along the inner rim. The legend CENTENARIO · ROMA · CAPITAL · arcs across the upper field, and the commemorative dates 1870 and 1970 appear in the lower field on either side of the central figure, marking the centenary of Rome becoming the capital of Italy. |
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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.