7000 Francos CFA Lions

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.