100 Angolares

The Banco de Angola's 1946 series was issued under Portuguese colonial administration at a moment when Angola's export economy — primarily diamonds and coffee — was generating enough revenue to justify a substantial currency update. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for the bulk of Portuguese colonial paper throughout the mid-twentieth century, and the quality of the intaglio work on this series is consistently finer than on earlier Angolan issues.

P#81 sits toward the higher end of the 1946 denomination range, meaning circulated survivors show heavier wear concentrated along the vertical fold lines — a reliable indicator of how these notes were folded and pocketed in daily trade use in Luanda and the coastal markets.