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100 Angolares
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Value | 100 Angolares |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE ANGOLA (Translation: Bank of Angola) |
| Reverse description | A large intaglio historical vignette to the left illustrates a Portuguese colonial official consulting a document with indigenous Angolan figures on a riverbank, a sailing vessel and a construction scene visible in the background. A blank oval guilloche cartouche occupies the right centre, flanked below by the Portuguese royal coat of arms within a laurel wreath. The denomination cartouche "CEM ANGOLARES" is centred at the lower portion of the note, with the printer's imprint "THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY. LTD. LONDRES. INGLATERRA" along the bottom margin. The overall colour is violet-purple. |
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Banco de Angola's 100 Angolares series of the early 1950s was printed by Thomas De La Rue at a moment when Portuguese colonial monetary administration was being actively consolidated under the Estado Novo framework. Angola's banknote supply depended entirely on London-based printing contracts throughout this period — Lisbon had no comparable security printing infrastructure of its own.
De La Rue's work on the Portuguese colonial issues of this era is technically accomplished, with the intaglio printing quality consistent with their broader Commonwealth and colonial contract work of the time.