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2000 Ekuele Masie Nguema Biyogo, Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 1978 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed bust of Francisco Masie Nguema Biyogo, President for Life of Equatorial Guinea, in sharp right-facing profile, with detailed sculptural rendering of his facial features and hair. The circular legend reads MASIE NGUEMA BIYOGO PRESIDENTE VITALICIO around the upper and lateral periphery, separated from the field by a beaded inner border. The date 1978, flanked by raised bullet points, appears in the lower exergual area. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Masie Nguema Biyogo was the birth name of Francisco Macías Nguema, whose dictatorship over Equatorial Guinea from 1968 to 1979 is among the most brutal in post-colonial African history. He renamed himself — and the country's main island — after consolidating power, and oversaw the deaths or exile of roughly a third of the population. A trial piece for a denomination that may never have seen general circulation, struck in the final year before his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo overthrew and executed him.