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50 Escudos Macelina
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 ESCUDOS 1994 REPÚBLICA DE CABO VERDE (Translation: 50 Escudos 1994 Republic of Cape Verde) |
| Reverse description | A naturalistic botanical study of the Macelina plant (Asteriscus vogelii) fills the central field, depicting a dense spray of daisy-like composite flowers with elongated petals radiating from disc centres, interspersed with narrow lanceolate leaves rendered in fine relief. The scientific binomial ASTERISCUS VOGELLI (WEBB) WALP is inscribed in italic lettering along the upper left periphery. The local vernacular name MACELINA appears in bold capital letters along the lower exergual margin. |
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Cape Verde's post-independence monetary system was established following the 1975 separation from Portugal, with the Banco de Cabo Verde assuming full issuing authority. The escudo was retained as the unit of account — a pragmatic holdover — and pegged to the Portuguese escudo until the Euro transition complicated that arrangement. By the early 1990s, the archipelago was producing a distinctive series of coins celebrating endemic and native species, of which the macelina belongs.
KM#44 is part of that fauna series. Nickel-plated steel replaced earlier cupronickel in this period as cost-cutting across smaller African issuing authorities became standard practice following commodity price pressures in the late 1980s.