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100 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Dr. António Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), Angolan statesman and poet, set against a background vignette of industrial workers. The denomination appears at lower left, with the issuer's title and value inscriptions arranged across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette illustrates a scene of dressmakers engaged in sewing and textile manufacturing. The Angolan Coat of Arms appears at lower left, with the denomination centred along the lower margin. |
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Angola's 1979 currency reform came just four years after independence, as the MPLA government worked to displace the Portuguese escudo and establish the kwanza as the national unit. Thomas De La Rue printed this series under contract — a common arrangement for newly independent African states that lacked domestic printing infrastructure and needed internationally accepted security paper quickly.
The 100 kwanza denomination from this issue circulates heavily in surviving collections, suggesting it was the workhorse denomination of the series. Inflation would render the entire 1979 kwanza series largely obsolete within a decade, accelerated by the ongoing civil war that disrupted economic stability well into the 1990s.