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50 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQUENTA KWANZAS (Translation: Fifty Kwanzas) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Angola's 1984 issues arrived during the grinding civil war between the MPLA government and UNITA, a period when the kwanza was deteriorating rapidly in real purchasing power despite official exchange controls. The Banco Nacional de Angola was issuing currency under severe fiscal strain, and notes of this series circulated heavily — worn examples dominate the market for good reason.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, a continuation of the colonial-era dependency on British security printers that the independent Angolan state never fully broke from in this decade.