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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE CABO VERDE 500 QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS 20 de Janeiro de 1989 (Translation: Bank of Cape Verde Five Hundred Escudos January 20, 1989) |
| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print on a multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents trawlers moored at the Port of Mindelo synchrolift shipyard on São Vicente island, with Islet dos Pássaros visible in the background. The national coat of arms appears at right, with the denomination and statutory anti-counterfeiting inscription below. |
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Cabo Verde's central bank was only established in 1975, immediately after independence from Portugal, and for several years the country relied on transitional currency arrangements before developing its own distinct note series. By the late 1980s, the Banco de Cabo Verde was commissioning Thomas De La Rue for higher-denomination work — a common arrangement for Lusophone African states that lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The P#59 500 Escudos is the only security feature on record for this issue being a watermark alone, which is relatively minimal for a De La Rue product of this period.