20 000 Pesos 2nd Extraordinary Congress

Guinea-Bissau's extraordinary congresses were sessions of the PAIGC — the ruling party that had led the independence war against Portugal — convened outside the regular party congress schedule to address acute political crises. The 2nd Extraordinary Congress of 1990 took place as the country faced mounting pressure to abandon single-party rule, a process that would formally conclude with the 1991 constitutional revisions legalizing opposition parties. This coin was issued directly in that atmosphere of forced liberalization, part of a broader program of silver collector pieces Guinea-Bissau used almost entirely to generate foreign exchange rather than domestic circulation.