Angola's 2005 gold commemorative program marked the thirtieth anniversary of independence from Portugal, declared on November 11, 1975 — the same day Cuban troops and Soviet-supplied weaponry were already engaged in a civil war that would consume the country for another 27 years. The kwanza itself had been redenominated multiple times by 2005, a direct consequence of inflation that had, at its worst in the early 1990s, exceeded 4,000 percent annually.
KM# 105.1 distinguishes this from a paired variant in the series, both struck in fractional gold at the Vienna Mint under contract.
Angola's 2005 gold commemorative program marked the thirtieth anniversary of independence from Portugal, declared on November 11, 1975 — the same day Cuban troops and Soviet-supplied weaponry were already engaged in a civil war that would consume the country for another 27 years. The kwanza itself had been redenominated multiple times by 2005, a direct consequence of inflation that had, at its worst in the early 1990s, exceeded 4,000 percent annually.
KM# 105.1 distinguishes this from a paired variant in the series, both struck in fractional gold at the Vienna Mint under contract.