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500 Pesetas Guineanas Vladimir Lenin
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Weight | 7.05 g |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea is displayed centrally, featuring a shield with a silk-cotton tree and two crossed tusks below, with six stars arcing above the shield. The legend REP. DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL arcs around the upper field, while PESETAS GUINEANAS curves along the lower border. The denomination 500 appears prominently in large numerals at the bottom of the field, with LEY 900 to the left and the date 1970 to the right of the coat of arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and within two years the new government of Francisco Macías Nguema was issuing gold commemoratives bearing Lenin's portrait — an ideologically charged series that reflected Macías's early courtship of Soviet patronage. The Lenin piece was part of a broader 1970 proof issue covering historical figures with no organic connection to the country, produced almost certainly for export sale to collectors rather than domestic circulation.
Macías would later declare himself president-for-life and god, expelling Soviet advisors along with nearly everyone else.