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1000 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Size | 164 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE ANGOLA 1000 (Translation: National Bank of Angola) |
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| Reverse lettering | MIL KWANZAS KALANDULA 1000 (Translation: One Thousand Kwanzas) |
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Angola's relationship with Goznak dates to the post-independence period, when the MPLA government's Soviet alignment made Moscow a natural source for currency production — a political and logistical connection that outlasted the Cold War by decades. This 2012 issue continues that long-running arrangement, by which point Goznak had been printing Angolan banknotes across multiple series for well over thirty years.
The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, which is notably sparse for a high-denomination note issued in the 2010s. Angola's kwanza had by this point been redenominated twice — the readjustado in 1995, then the current kwanza in 1999 at 1,000,000-to-one — so the 1000 Kwanza denomination itself carries the ghost of a hyperinflationary collapse.