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750 Pesetas Guineanas Rome
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.