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100 Dobras
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL de S. TOMÉ e PRÍNCIPE CEM DOBRAS Decreto-Lei no. 6/82. S. TOMÉ e PRÍNCIPE, 30 de SETEMBRO de 1982. O MINISTRO DO PLANO O GOVERNADOR (Translation: National Bank of St. Thomas and Prince Hundred Dobras Decree-Law no. 6/82. St. Thomas and Prince, September 30, 1982. The Minister of Planning The Governor) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE S. TOMÉ E PRINCIPE CEM DOBRAS BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ld. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND (Translation: National Bank of St. Thomas and Prince Hundred Dobras) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work for newly independent African states in the late 1970s and early 1980s was extensive, and São Tomé and Príncipe — independent from Portugal only since 1975 — was one of the smaller commissions. The Banco Nacional was itself a creature of independence, replacing Portuguese colonial financial infrastructure with a single-tier central bank that handled both commercial and monetary functions. The dobra, introduced in 1977, was pegged to the Portuguese escudo at par initially, though that arrangement eroded quickly under the pressures of a command economy reliant almost entirely on cocoa export revenue.
Bradbury Wilkinson closed in 1990 when De La Rue absorbed the operation, making all BW-printed issues from this period terminal — no later printings from the same house are possible.