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1000 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | P#117 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE ANGOLA 1000 MIL KWANZAS (Translation: National Bank of Angola, One Thousand Kwanzas) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette illustrates a classroom scene with school children and teachers. The Angolan Coat of Arms is positioned at lower left, with the denomination centred along the lower margin. |
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Angola's first post-independence currency series was issued under severe economic strain — civil war had been grinding since 1975, and the kwanza itself had only been introduced in 1977 to replace the escudo at par. This 1000 Kwanza note sits at the top of that initial series, a denomination whose real purchasing power was already eroding fast by the time these notes reached circulation.
P#117 was printed by the German firm Giesecke & Devrient. Worth noting for collectors: paper quality and ink registration on this series vary enough between print runs that minor color shifts should not automatically be read as fakes.