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5000 Bipkwele 1979 Spanish Royalty Visit; Pattern
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 5000 Bipkwele (5000 GQE) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL 80 0.917 UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA 5.000 BIPKWELE |
| Reverse description | Conjoined busts of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain in left-facing profile are centrally placed, with the king's bust in the foreground and the queen's bust slightly behind and overlapping. The circular legend S.S. M.M. LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA VISITAN GUINEA runs along the upper periphery, and the commemorative date DICIEMBRE 1979 appears in the lower field, all within a beaded border. |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in 1968, but Francisco Macías Nguema's increasingly brutal dictatorship strained that relationship to the breaking point. His overthrow by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in August 1979 opened a diplomatic reset, and Spain moved quickly to re-establish ties with the new regime. This pattern piece — struck in aluminium rather than a precious metal — was produced to commemorate a Spanish royal visit in that context of renewed relations, though it never advanced to an approved circulation issue.