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7000 Francos CFA Lions
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 7000 Francos CFA |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a detailed relief map of the African continent set against a mirror-polished field, populated with vignettes depicting diverse African wildlife and scenery, including a soaring eagle at the top, an antelope, savanna trees, a traditional thatched dwelling, and a lion group at the base of the continent. To the left of the map, the national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea — displaying a silk-cotton tree on a shield surmounted by six stars and inscribed with the national motto — is rendered in fine detail. The arc legend REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL runs along the upper periphery, with the date 1992 and the fineness mark 999 positioned in the lower field flanking the base of the map. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Equatorial Guinea's outsized silver issues of the early 1990s were produced largely for the collector export market rather than any domestic monetary purpose — the country had adopted the CFA franc through its 1985 entry into the Central African monetary union, making high-denomination domestic silver strikes a fiscal curiosity from the outset. KM#76 is among the heaviest of these, a format sometimes called a "kilo-class" piece despite falling just short of that threshold.
The series was struck by foreign minting contractors, not by any facility within Equatorial Guinea itself.