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5000 Ekuele Masie Nguema Biyogo
| Issuer | Banco Central de Malabo |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 5000 Ekuele (5000 GQE) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1978 - Proof - 31,000 |
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Masie Nguema Biyogo — the name given to Bioko Island after Francisco Macías Nguema renamed it for himself in 1973 — appeared on coinage as part of a broader cult-of-personality apparatus that consumed Equatorial Guinea through the 1970s. Macías had by 1978 declared himself President-for-Life and banned any religion not centered on himself, executing clergy and intellectuals by the thousands. Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the country's population fled or died under his rule.
He was overthrown and executed in August 1979, less than a year after this coin was struck. The island reverted to its colonial name, Bioko, shortly after.