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500 Pesetas Guineanas Mahatma Gandhi
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 500 Pesetas |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea, depicting a shield charged with a silk-cotton tree above a ribbon inscribed UNIDAD JUSTICIA PAZ, flanked by two crossed elephant tusks in saltire and surmounted by six stars in an arc. The denomination 500 and legend PESETAS GUINEANAS appear in the lower field, with fineness inscription LEY 900 and date 1970 flanking the tusks at mid-field. The circular legend REP. DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL runs along the left and right periphery respectively, with a small hallmark punch visible at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | REP.DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL LEY 900 1970 500 PESETAS GUINEANAS (Translation: Republic of Equatorial Guinea .900 Purity 500 Guinean Pesetas) |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain on October 12, 1968, and almost immediately began issuing a series of gold commemoratives under the new Macias Nguema government — coins almost certainly never intended for domestic circulation. The Gandhi issue was part of that inaugural series, which honored a geographically and politically arbitrary roster of world figures. It was a revenue exercise aimed squarely at foreign collectors, not a statement of any diplomatic or ideological alignment with India.
Minted in 1969, just one year after independence, by a state that had no meaningful mint infrastructure of its own.