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30 000 Francos CFA Protection of the African Elephant
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 33.93 g |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL 1993 UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA 30000 FRANCOS |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Equatorial Guinea's gold commemorative program in the early 1990s was essentially a revenue exercise — the country had no meaningful domestic coin market and these issues were produced entirely for export to European and American collectors. The elephant series rode the wave of CITES-era conservation sentiment following the 1989 ivory trade ban, which had made the African elephant an internationally bankable subject.
Equatorial Guinea is not a member of the CFA franc zone — it uses the Central African CFA franc through CEMAC, having joined only in 1985 after switching from the ekwele. Denominating a collector gold piece in francs CFA carried no monetary function whatsoever.