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50 Ekuele
| Issuer | Banco Popular |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 50 Ekuele |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO POPULAR 50 EMBARCADERO DE MADERA UNIDAD PAZ JUSTICIA CINCUENTA EKUELE THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Equatorial Guinea's 1975 currency reform replaced the peseta guineana with the ekuele — a renaming exercise tied closely to the country's post-independence push to sever visible links to Spain. The Banco Popular was the sole issuing authority under Francisco Macías Nguema's government, a regime that by 1975 had already expelled most foreign nationals and dismantled the banking infrastructure inherited from colonial administration.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, a fairly routine assignment for them in Francophone and newly independent African states during this period. What makes this series historically pointed is the brevity of the ekuele's own lifespan — it was replaced by the ekpwele in 1979 following Macías Nguema's overthrow and execution.