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7000 Francos CFA Lions
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved naturalistic scene of African lions: a large, full-maned male lion stands prominently in the upper left against a grassy ground, while a recumbent lioness and a cub are depicted in the foreground below, rendered in high relief with exceptional sculptural detail. The bilingual legend PROTECCION DE LA NATURALEZA AFRICANA arcs along the upper left periphery, with ENDANGERED WILDLIFE inscribed along the upper right. In the lower field, the denomination 7000 FRANCOS flanks a small depiction of the national coat of arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | PROTECCION DE LA NATURALEZA AFRICANA ENDANGERED WILDLIFE 7000 FRANCOS |
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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.