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250 Escudos 50th Anniversary of OAU
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The copper-nickel centre displays the 50th anniversary logo of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU/OUA), with a broken chain motif dividing the commemorative date range '1963-2013'. The outer brass ring carries the principal commemorative legend arranged around the circumference, separated by chain-link ornaments. The inscriptions identify the year of issue and the thematic designation of 2013 as the Year of Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1963-2013 50 OUA 2013 Ano do Pan-Africanismo e do Renascimento Africano (Translation: 1963-2013 50 OAU 2013 - Year of Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance) |
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The Organisation of African Unity, founded in Addis Ababa in 1963, dissolved in 2002 when it was reconstituted as the African Union — making the anniversary this coin commemorates something of a backward glance at a body that no longer existed. Cape Verde joined the OAU in 1975 upon independence from Portugal, giving the island nation just 27 years of membership before the organisation itself lapsed.