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50 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistically rendered branch of Coffea robusta (Robusta coffee plant), bearing leaves, berries, and blossoms, occupies the central and right portions of the note, with the legend COFFEA ROBUSTA inscribed nearby. The composition is set against an elaborate multicolour guilloche pattern with two large circular rosette medallions to the left and lower-left, and the numeral 50 in a guilloche oval at upper right. The printer's imprint DE LA RUE appears at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ANGOLA 50 COFFEA ROBUSTA (Translation: Bank of Angola; Coffea Robusta) |
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By 1972, Angola was three years into a sustained independence war that had begun in 1961, and Banco de Angola — technically a private institution under Portuguese metropolitan control — was still issuing notes designed and printed in London as if the colonial arrangement were permanent. This series, produced by Thomas De La Rue, was part of a broader currency continuity effort that would be overtaken by events: independence came in 1975, and the escudo was replaced by the kwanza almost immediately.
The P#100 series is not rare in circulated grades, but truly uncirculated examples are harder to locate than their relatively late date suggests — wartime disruption to banking infrastructure meant notes passed through more hands more quickly than peacetime economics would have produced.