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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Republica Portuguesa - Angola |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated female figure with a plow, accompanied by a sailing ship at sea in the background. The Portuguese Coat of Arms appears alongside a lion's head, framing the composition within decorative borders. Inscriptions identify the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Allegorical vignette of Mercury alongside a female figure representing Industry, with a factory and a passenger steamship in the background. The Portuguese Coat of Arms is incorporated into the design. The year of issue and territorial inscriptions appear within the border lettering. |
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Angola's 1921 fractional issues were a direct response to a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage across Portuguese colonial territories in the early 1920s. The metropolitan government repeatedly failed to ship adequate coin supplies, and paper fractionals became the practical substitute — a stopgap that outlasted several attempts to resolve the underlying supply problem.
Pick 62 belongs to a broader family of Angolan emergency fractionals from this period, several of which are genuinely difficult to source in any presentable condition given their low face value, rough handling, and the disposable regard with which circulating populations typically treated sub-unit notes.