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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos (1000 GWP) |
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| Obverse description | Green on brown and multicolour underprint, with a vignette of a weaver at a loom at lower left centre and a portrait of Amilcar Cabral at right. The national arms appear at lower right. Date 24 SETEMBRO 1978 is printed below the bank title, with two signature varieties recorded. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint, with a large allegorical intaglio vignette titled 'Apoteose ao Triunfo' — a triumphant composition of figures representing the people of Guinea-Bissau, centred on a mounted rider bearing a torch and the national flag. Denomination numerals '1000' appear at all four corners, with the bank title running across the top. |
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Guiné-Bissau declared independence from Portugal in 1974, but the new state initially continued using the Cape Verdean escudo as a transitional currency while its own institutions took shape. The Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau was established to assert full monetary control, and this 1978 series — printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden facility — represented the first substantive domestic currency infrastructure for one of the world's smallest and poorest nations at the time.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is notable: the firm had a long record printing for newly independent African states during the 1960s and 1970s, often providing the entire security printing package on short commercial contracts. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature on this note — a limitation that reflected budget constraints rather than any oversight.