50 Escudos

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.