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100 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a portrait of Dr. António Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), Angolan statesman and poet, with a vignette of workers in the background. The denomination numeral appears at the lower left, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. Issuer name and denomination inscription run along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette illustrates dressmakers engaged in sewing and garment manufacturing, reflecting post-independence themes of labour and industry. The Angolan Coat of Arms is positioned at the lower left, with the denomination inscription centred along the lower margin. A multicolour guilloche underprint frames the composition. |
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Angola's first post-independence banknote series was rushed into production almost immediately after the MPLA government declared independence in November 1975. Thomas De La Rue delivered these notes while the civil war between MPLA, UNITA, and FNLA was still actively contested in the field — Cuban troops were fighting alongside government forces when this issue reached circulation.
The Banco Nacional de Angola had been reconstituted from the colonial Banco de Angola just months before, and the institution was issuing currency for a state whose territorial control remained genuinely uncertain at the time of printing.