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150 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Diameter | 45.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The allegorical figure of Roma, helmeted and draped in classical attire, is depicted seated facing slightly left in the central field, holding a small Victory figure in her raised right hand and resting her left hand on a large round shield decorated with a star motif. A spear leans against her left shoulder. To the left, a detailed relief of a Roman building — the Palazzo delle Finanze or similar — occupies the background, while Roman columns rise behind her to the right. The dual dates 1870 and 1970 appear in the lower left field, commemorating the centenary of Rome as the capital of Italy, and a small star is placed at the bottom of the coin below the central composition. The curved legend CENTENARIO ROMA CAPITAL runs along the upper periphery. |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and within two years the new government contracted the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato in Rome to produce its first commemorative coinage. The arrangement was practical — the country had no mint of its own and limited infrastructure — but the Rome-struck issues of 1970 also served the foreign exchange ambitions of Francisco Macías Nguema's government, which was already courting hard currency through coin sales to European collectors rather than domestic circulation.
Macías would be executed by firing squad nine years later following one of the most brutal dictatorships in post-colonial African history. These coins left the country before any of that unraveled.