75 Pesetas Guineanas Mahatma Gandhi

Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and by 1970 the government of Francisco Macías Nguema had begun issuing a series of foreign-market collector coins with virtually no connection to the country's own history or economy. Gandhi was simply a bankable subject. These issues were produced for export and profit, minted by the Spanish Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, and never meaningfully circulated within the country itself.

Macías Nguema would go on to declare himself president-for-life and pursue one of the most brutal dictatorships in African postcolonial history — an incongruous footnote for a coin honoring nonviolent resistance.