Guinea-Bissau 1993 20000 pesos KM-34
This specimen was lot 3067 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "GUINEA-BISSAU: Republic, AR 20000 pesos, 1993, Sailing Ship-Passat, mintage of only 100 pieces in matte unc finish, very rare, PCGS graded MS67." Wikipedia comments, "Passat is a German four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She is one of the last surviving windjammers." She now serves as a museum ship in Travemünde, Schleswig-Holstein. The peso was the original currency of independent Guinea-Bissau from 1975 until the country adopted the CFA franc in 1997.
Recorded mintage: 100 plus 5,000 proofs.
Specification: 20.1 g, 0.999 fine silver, 38 mm diameter, reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM-34.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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