250 Escudos 50th Anniversary of OAU

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.