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500 Ekueles Elobey islands
| Issuer | Equatorial Guinea |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Diameter | 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central copper-toned inner disk depicting a large multi-masted sailing vessel (carrack or galleon) in left profile, rendered in relief against a plain field. The denomination '500' appears prominently in large numerals across the upper portion of the coin, straddling both the inner disk and the outer brass-toned ring. The legend 'ekuele' is inscribed to the left of the ship in the inner field, while 'Elobey' is engraved in large letters across the lower portion of the inner disk. The date '2013' is struck on the outer ring at the bottom. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Elobey Grande and Elobey Chico are two tiny islands off Equatorial Guinea's coast that briefly hosted one of colonial Africa's more obscure administrative posts — a Spanish telegraph station that connected the Gulf of Guinea to the Atlantic cable network in the early twentieth century. The islands have been effectively uninhabited for decades. Coins invoking them belong to Equatorial Guinea's long-running series of collector-targeted issues, produced in low quantities for the numismatic market rather than domestic circulation, a practice the country has pursued aggressively since the 1990s through various foreign minting arrangements.