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1000 Novo Kwanzas Overprint
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE ANGOLA NOVO KWANZA A VITÓRIA É CERTA (Translation: National Bank of Angola, New Kwanza, Victory is Certain) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of armed soldiers advancing in combat formation, with military equipment in the background; the National Coat of Arms of Angola appears at lower left, a solitary armed soldier stands at far right, and the denomination appears in a guilloche cartouche at centre right and repeated numerically at lower right, with the value inscription at top. |
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Angola's currency went through a particularly unstable sequence in the 1980s. The Novo Kwanza, introduced in 1977 at par with the original Kwanza, was itself overprinted onto earlier stock rather than freshly printed in several denominations — a cost-saving measure during a period when the civil war was consuming the national budget and foreign exchange for printing contracts was hard to justify.
Thomas De La Rue handled the underlying printing, but the overprint itself was applied separately, and alignment inconsistencies between the base note and the overprint text are well documented across the series.