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10 Angolares
| Issuer | Provincia de Angola - Junta da Moeda |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Value | 10 Angolares |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA PORTUGUÊSA PROVINCIA DE ANGOLA JUNTA DA MOEDA DEZ ANGOLARES DECRETO Nº 12,124, de 14 de Agosto, 1926 O PRESIDENTE UM VOCAL (Translation: Portuguese Republic, Province of Angola, Currency Board, Ten Angolares, Decree No. 12,124 of 14 August 1926, The President, A Member) |
| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a resting male lion, rendered in fine line engraving, set within a rectangular shield-shaped frame against a background of tall grasses. The denomination word "DEZ" appears to the left and "ANGOLARES" to the right of the central vignette in bold letterspaced capitals. A large guilloche rosette occupies the lower left and an ornate guilloche medallion with the numeral "10" the lower right, with elaborate acanthus-scroll cornerpieces framing the entire composition. The printer's imprint appears along the bottom margin. |
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Angola's Junta da Moeda issues of the mid-1920s came during a period of acute monetary instability in Portuguese colonial Africa, when Lisbon was struggling to stabilize currencies across its overseas territories following the postwar inflationary collapse. The Angolar itself was introduced in 1926 as part of that stabilization effort, replacing the earlier depreciated escudo-based notes at par.
Thomas De La Rue printed this series in London — routine for Portuguese colonial issues of the period, as Lisbon regularly contracted British security printers for its overseas currency work.