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75 Pesetas Guineanas Mahatma Gandhi, Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Weight | 15 g |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse with an entirely plain, unfinished field, consistent with its status as a reverse trial piece. The surface bears no design elements, legends, or devices, reflecting the incomplete die preparation stage at which this trial was struck. At the lower centre of the field, a rectangular cartouche bears the mintmaster mark MET. above the engraver's name GORI & ZUCCHI, identifying the Italian firm Metalli Preziosi and the engravers responsible for the dies. The field surface shows tooling marks and test scratches typical of a workshop trial planchet. |
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| Reverse lettering | MET. GORI & ZUCCHI |
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Equatorial Guinea's early independence-era coinage was largely a commercial operation — the newly sovereign state, independent from Spain only since 1968, contracted foreign mints to produce a stream of collector issues with little connection to Guinean history or culture. This Gandhi piece is exactly that: a proof-style commemorative aimed squarely at the international numismatic market, not domestic circulation.
The "Reverse Trial" designation points to an intermediate stage in die approval — a striking used to evaluate the reverse die before full production commitment. Such pieces exist in very small numbers almost by definition.