Biafra ceased to exist as a state in January 1970, when secessionist forces surrendered to the Nigerian federal government after a brutal thirty-month civil war that killed somewhere between one and three million people, mostly through deliberate starvation. This coin was struck over four decades after that capitulation — not by any recognized authority, but as part of a wave of fantasy issues produced for the collector market under the Biafran name.
No monetary system, no issuing bank, no sovereign territory. The denomination is fiction.
Biafra ceased to exist as a state in January 1970, when secessionist forces surrendered to the Nigerian federal government after a brutal thirty-month civil war that killed somewhere between one and three million people, mostly through deliberate starvation. This coin was struck over four decades after that capitulation — not by any recognized authority, but as part of a wave of fantasy issues produced for the collector market under the Biafran name.
No monetary system, no issuing bank, no sovereign territory. The denomination is fiction.