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7000 Francos CFA Endangered Wildlife, Elephants
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a naturalistic high-relief rendering of an adult African elephant walking in profile to the left, accompanied by a juvenile elephant standing beside it among stylized grass. The bilateral legend PROTECCION DE LA NATURALEZA AFRICANA arcs around the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, with the secondary legend ENDANGERED WILDLIFE inscribed in a smaller arc immediately below it. The denomination 7000 FRANCOS appears in the lower field flanking the national coat of arms. |
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Equatorial Guinea has operated one of the more opportunistic numismatic programs in Africa since the 1990s, issuing coins with no plausible domestic circulation purpose — this piece among them. The 7000 Francos CFA denomination is a legal fiction; no such value existed in everyday Equatoguinean commerce, and the CFA franc itself was not even Equatorial Guinea's currency until 1985, when the country abandoned the ekwele after a decade of economic collapse under Macías Nguema's dictatorship.
KM#104 belongs to a collector-targeted wildlife series produced under contract, almost certainly struck at a European facility rather than any African mint.