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1000 Dobras
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue, green, and multicolour underprint. The central vignette depicts a shirtless male worker harvesting cacao pods from a tree, with a coastal landscape visible in the background at left. The denomination numerals "1000" appear at upper right and lower left, with the value inscription "MIL DOBRAS" at the lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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São Tomé and Príncipe gained independence from Portugal in July 1975, and the Banco Nacional was established almost immediately as the new state's sole monetary authority — replacing the colonial Banco Nacional Ultramarino, which had issued escudos. The dobra was introduced at parity with the escudo, and this 1977 series represented the first substantive domestic monetary infrastructure for a country with a population under 80,000 and an economy built almost entirely on cocoa.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled security printing for numerous post-colonial African states through the 1970s, and the technical specification here is unremarkable — single watermark, cotton substrate, no metallic thread. The P#55 designation places it in the first independently issued series, before the 1982 revision.