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1 Peseta Guineana
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 1 occupies the left portion of the field, with the denomination legend PESETA GUINEANA inscribed in two lines below. To the right, the national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea is depicted, featuring a shield bearing a silk-cotton tree (God tree) above a silver sea, surmounted by an arc of six five-pointed stars representing the country's mainland and islands. A scroll at the base of the shield bears the national motto in three lines. |
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Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain on October 12, 1968, making this 1969 issue part of the country's first sovereign coinage series — struck just months after the handover. The new nation under Francisco Macías Nguema moved quickly to establish a distinct currency, though the peseta guineana was pegged to the Spanish peseta and the coins were almost certainly produced under contract rather than at any domestic facility.
Macías Nguema would be convicted of genocide and executed by firing squad a decade later. The early optimism embedded in these first issues aged badly.