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20 000 Pesos Passat
| Issuer | Guinea-Bissau (1976-date) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed depiction of the four-masted steel barque Passat under full sail occupies the central field, rendered in fine line engraving. The vessel is shown underway on a stylized sea with billowing sails set on all masts and rigging faithfully reproduced. The ship's name PASSAT appears in decorative serif lettering arcing along the upper right field, while the date 1993 is inscribed in the lower right portion of the field near the waterline. |
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| Reverse lettering | PASSAT 1993 |
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Guinea-Bissau's coinage program in the early 1990s was largely driven by foreign mint contracts targeting the collector market rather than domestic circulation — the country's actual monetary needs were met through the West African CFA franc, which had replaced the peso as the functional currency for most transactions. This piece is effectively a bullion-adjacent commemorative with no circulation history.
The Passat was a type of two-masted cargo vessel common to Atlantic trade routes from the 16th through 19th centuries — the name itself is German for "trade wind."