Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is a country on the west coast of Africa on (you guessed it) the Gulf of Guinea. Rio Muni and Fernando Po, provinces of Spain at the time, merged and became Equatorial Guinea in October 1968.


 * In October 1968, its first issue was naturally commemorating independence. It was inscribed REPUBLICA DE / GUINEA / EQUATORIAL.
 * By 1971, there wasn't much of a governmental apparatus and that included a post office. The main post office was closed from 1972 to 1979. Still, this did not prevent its postal agents from printing all kinds of topicals.
 * With the reopening of the post office in 1979,





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