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750 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A standing full-length figure of Athena (Roma) dominates the central field, helmeted and draped in classical attire, holding a long spear in her left hand and a scroll or fasces in her right. Behind her to the left appears a depiction of the Colosseum, and to the right a modernist building representing contemporary Rome, evoking the centenary theme. The dates 1870 and 1970 flank the base of the figure in the lower field. A border of small stars encircles the lower half of the coin, and the legend CENTENARIO · ROMA · CAPITAL arcs prominently along the upper rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTENARIO ROMA CAPITAL 1870 1970 (Translation: Centenary of Rome as capital) |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain in October 1968, and within two years the government of Francisco Macías Nguema was commissioning gold commemorative issues struck at the Rome Mint — a peculiar choice for a newly sovereign African state, but one common among nations that lacked domestic minting infrastructure and sought the prestige of a European facility. The 1970 gold series, of which this 750 Pesetas Guineanas piece forms part, was produced almost entirely for the collector market rather than circulation.
Macías Nguema would go on to become one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century, eventually executing or exiling roughly a third of the country's population before his own nephew, Teodoro Obiang, staged a coup and had him executed in 1979.