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1000 Bipkwele
| Issuer | Banco de Guinea Ecuatorial |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown and maroon tones, the reverse carries a central intaglio vignette of a cocoa harvest scene with three figures sorting and handling cacao pods beside baskets under tree foliage. Ornate scrollwork and guilloche borders frame the design on all sides, with the denomination numerals '1000' at upper left, lower left and upper right corners. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of T. E. Nkogo |
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Equatorial Guinea's 1979 issue came just two years after the fall of Francisco Macías Nguema, one of the most brutal dictators in African history. His overthrow by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in August 1979 triggered a complete institutional reset, including the replacement of the ekwele currency infrastructure that had functioned under near-total economic collapse. This 1000 Bipkwele note belongs to that transitional moment — printed in Madrid by the FNMT as the new government scrambled to establish basic financial credibility.
The plural "Bipkwele" orthography on higher denominations is itself a period detail, soon standardized differently as monetary reform continued into the early 1980s.