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50 Angolares
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE ANGOLA CINCOENTA ANGOLARES DECRETO Nº 12,151 DE 14 DE AGOSTO DE 1926 MANUEL CERVEIRA PEREIRA O GOVERNADOR O VICE GOVERNADOR O VICE GOVERNADOR 1 DE MARÇO DE 1951 THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY. LTD. LONDRES INGLATERRA (Translation: Bank of Angola, Fifty Angolares, Decree No. 12,151 of 14 August 1926, The Governor, The Vice Governor, The Vice Governor, 1 March 1951, Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. London England) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ANGOLA FUNDAÇÃO DE BENGUELA 1617 CINCOENTA ANGOLARES THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY. LTD. LONDRES INGLATERRA (Translation: Bank of Angola, Founding of Benguela 1617, Fifty Angolares, Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. London England) |
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Banco de Angola was established in 1926 as the sole bank of issue for the Portuguese colony, replacing the earlier Banco Nacional Ultramarino in that role. By 1951, the institution had settled into a mature series of notes produced by Thomas De La Rue in London — a relationship that continued across multiple denominations and date variants through the late colonial period.
The 1926 reform also introduced the "angolar" as Angola's currency unit, replacing the colonial réis. That change was itself a consequence of Salazar's broader financial reorganisation of Portuguese overseas territories in the late 1920s, and this note belongs to the series that ran for decades without fundamental redesign.