Catalog
2000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Reference(s) | P#66 |
| Obverse description | Vertically oriented note in brown, green, red and multicolour; intaglio portrait of Eugénio Tavares occupies the lower two-thirds of the face, with his name inscribed in red below. The upper portion carries a complex guilloche underprint in yellow and green, overlaid with abstract geometric line patterns and a blue holographic optically variable device at upper right. Bank title 'Banco de Cabo Verde' appears in dark blue at centre-left, the denomination '2000' in red at upper right, and the date '1 DE JULHO DE 1999' along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Vertically oriented reverse dominated by a large vignette of a cardinal flower (Hibiscus) in full bloom, rendered in vivid pink-red with a yellow centre, set against a pale guilloche background with overlapping curved line patterns in blue and red. A stanza from Eugénio Tavares's poem 'Morna de Aguada' is inscribed in cursive script across the centre field in Creole. A vignette of a fountain pen nib appears at lower right, and the denomination numeral '2000' with the legend 'DOIS MIL ESCUDOS' is printed at the foot in tricolour. |
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| Variants | P#66a - 01.07.1999. Issued note. P#66s - Specimen. Red overprint ESPECIME. |
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