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5 Angolares
| Issuer | Provincia de Angola - Junta da Moeda |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510–1589), Portuguese colonizer and first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola, rendered in intaglio portrait style. The design is framed by elaborate guilloche borders and ornamental scrollwork typical of De La Rue engraving of the period. Issuing authority and denomination inscriptions are arranged within the surrounding border panels. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of an African elephant standing in savanna grass, set within a cartouche framed by elaborate scroll and foliate ornaments in red-brown. A large guilloche rosette occupies the lower left, while an ornate numeral "5" anchors the lower right within a lace-pattern underprint. The printer's imprint "THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY. LTD. LONDRES, INGLATERRA" appears along the bottom margin. |
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The Junta da Moeda issues of the mid-1920s occupy an awkward transitional moment in Angolan monetary administration — the colony had only recently shifted away from the Banco Nacional Ultramarino's near-exclusive control over local currency, and the Junta was issuing notes on provisional authority while Lisbon sorted out the longer-term arrangement. Thomas De La Rue handled production, as they did for much of Portugal's colonial paper across this period.
The angolar itself, introduced in 1926 at par with the Portuguese escudo, replaced the earlier réis-denominated system. Five angolares was a working-class denomination — meaningful in daily commerce but not large enough to attract the hoarding that affected higher values during the currency transition.