Catalog
20 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1914-1974) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGÁVEL EM S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE VINTE ESCUDOS BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. GRAVADORES, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, INGLATERRA (Translation: National Overseas Bank Payable in St. Tomé and Príncipe Twenty Escudos Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers, New Malden, Surrey, England) |
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| Variants | P#44a(1) - signature of Administrador: António Júlio de Castro Fernandes P#44a(2) - signature of Administrador: Luís Pereira Coutinho |
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São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal in July 1975, and this 1976 issue was among the first series produced for the newly established Banco Nacional — a state bank standing in for a central bank in a country that had virtually no banking infrastructure at independence. Bradbury Wilkinson, by then a well-practiced supplier of currency to emerging postcolonial states, handled the commission from their New Malden facility.
Pick 44 belongs to a short-lived series; the escudo was replaced by the dobra in 1977, meaning notes of this denomination had less than two years of legal tender status.