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| Emittent | Provincia de Angola |
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| Jahr | 1892-1895 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The note is framed by a geometric border with a repeating guilloche pattern. At the centre top, the provincial coat of arms appears above the curved inscription PROVINCIA DE ANGOLA, with the numeral 100 in each upper corner. The denomination CEM RÉIS is printed in large bold letterpress type at centre, flanked on each side by the word Bronze, with the place and date of issue — Loanda, 1 de janeiro de 1895 — below. Two manuscript signature lines appear at the foot, attributed to the Governor-General and the Inspector of the Provincial Treasury. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | PROVINCIA DE ANGOLA Bronze CEM RÉIS Bronze Loanda, 1 de janeiro de 1895 O governador geral, O inspector de fazenda (Translation: Province of Angola, One Hundred Réis, Luanda, 1 January 1895, The Governor-General, The Inspector of the Treasury) |
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| Anmerkungen |
Angola's Provincia-era fractional notes exist because silver coinage was chronically absent from everyday commerce along the coast — Portuguese metropolitan currency rarely made it into the interior in usable quantities, and what did arrive tended to disappear into hoarding. The Provincia de Angola's paper réis were a local administrative workaround, not a formal banking product.
The "Bronze" designation in the series name refers to the metallic currency these notes were intended to substitute, not to any material property of the paper itself. Pick 20A is among the scarcer surviving pieces from this short-lived fractional issue, which was effectively obsolete once the Banco Nacional Ultramarino consolidated its circulation authority in the territory.