100 Escudos

By 1973, Banco de Angola was issuing notes under increasing political pressure — the independence war that had begun in 1961 was entering its twelfth year, and Portuguese colonial administration was visibly strained. This note belongs to what would prove to be the final series issued under Portuguese authority before the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon changed everything. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had a long relationship with Portuguese colonial currency production.

Angola declared independence in November 1975, and the Banco de Angola series was superseded almost immediately by new Angolan kwanza issues, making the entire 1973 run short-lived in circulation terms.