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1000 Pesetas Guineanas
| Issuer | Banco Central |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Size | 156 × 103 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of President Francisco Macías Nguema Biyogo at centre, rendered in intaglio, flanked by decorative guilloche borders. Symbolic motifs of coffee berries, cocoa pods, and spear heads are incorporated into the design, evoking the nation's agricultural and cultural identity. Denomination numerals appear in each corner against a fine underprint. |
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| Protection description | Portraits of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon |
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Equatorial Guinea's first domestic currency series, including this note, was introduced in 1969 following independence from Spain in October of that year. The newly established Banco Central issued pesetas guineanas — a transitional currency deliberately named to ease the shift away from the Spanish peseta, which had circulated under colonial administration. The FNMT contract was a natural continuity: Madrid had printed Spanish colonial fiscal instruments for the territory for decades.
The series was short-lived. By 1975, the Macias Nguema regime's economic collapse forced a currency replacement, and many notes from this issue were destroyed or left unredeemed.