5000 Ekuele Masie Nguema Biyogo; Essai

Masie Nguema Biyogo was the birth name of Francisco Macías Nguema, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, who by 1978 had dismantled every institution of the state, banned the word "intellectual," and presided over the killing or exile of roughly a third of the country's population. The island of Bioko had been renamed after him personally. He was overthrown and executed by firing squad in 1979, just months after this essai was produced.

Pattern issues from his regime are extraordinarily rare in any metal. This gold essai almost certainly never entered circulation.