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7000 Francos Lions
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Equatorial Guinea are positioned at the lower left of the field, with the date 1992 inscribed below. The remainder of the field features a panoramic savanna and wildlife scene artistically composed in the silhouette shape of the African continent. The legend REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL arcs along the upper periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL 1992 |
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Equatorial Guinea's early 1990s gold issues were produced almost entirely for the collector export market — the country had no domestic numismatic tradition and limited mint infrastructure, contracting production to European facilities. The 7000 Francos denomination is essentially fictional as a circulating unit; no commerce was ever conducted in it.
KM#105 is part of a broader series issued in the years following the partial liberalization under Obiang Nguema, whose government used commemorative coinage programs as a modest foreign currency earner.