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50 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Size | 139 × 65 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of agricultural field workers labouring in crops, rendered in fine line engraving against a rural landscape background with trees on the horizon. The Angolan national coat of arms, encircled by the independence date legend '11 DE NOVEMBRO DE 1975' and inscribed 'República Popular ANGOLA', is positioned at lower left; the denomination '50' appears in ornate panels at upper left and lower right, with the word legend 'CINQUENTA KWANZAS' in bold lettering along the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | CINQUENTA KWANZAS 11 DE NOVEMBRO DE 1975 República Popular ANGOLA (Translation: Fifty Kwanzas / 11 November 1975 / People's Republic of Angola) |
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Angola's first post-independence banknote series, issued after the MPLA government consolidated control following the 1975-76 civil war, was printed by Thomas De La Rue under arrangements that made the Angolan government unusually dependent on a London printer during a period of active Cold War alignment with the Soviet bloc — a political awkwardness that went largely unremarked at the time.
The 50 Kwanza denomination sits in the middle of this 1979 series, which replaced the colonial-era escudo at par with the new national currency established by the Banco Nacional de Angola following independence in 1975.