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| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Equatorial Guinea's Olympic coinage from the early 1990s occupies a peculiar corner of the numismatic record — the country had no significant Olympic program to speak of, and these issues were produced squarely for the collector market rather than any domestic monetary purpose. The CFA franc denomination itself is an oddity here, as Equatorial Guinea joined the Central African CFA zone in 1985 after abandoning its own ekwele, making these francs technically legal tender in a country whose citizens would never reasonably encounter them in circulation.