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100 Ekuele
| Issuer | Banco Popular |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Size | 156 x 78 mm |
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| Reverse description | Green and multicolour reverse centred on a detailed vignette of the Puerto Macias Nguema Biyogo harbour, with a long pier extending into calm waters, small boats moored alongside, and a ship visible in the background. A rooster vignette, the national symbol, appears at right on a circular guilloche field serving as the watermark space. The denomination '100' is repeated at each corner within decorative guilloche borders. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Equatorial Guinea issued this note in 1975 under the Macías Nguema dictatorship, one of the most brutal regimes in postcolonial African history. The country had adopted the ekuele in 1975 to replace the peseta guineana, severing the last formal monetary tie to Spain following independence in 1968. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for much of the Banco Popular series — a practical arrangement given the near-total collapse of domestic institutional capacity under Macías.
The regime's economic mismanagement was catastrophic; by the late 1970s, the formal banking system had effectively ceased to function, and notes from this period saw highly erratic circulation patterns.