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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Size | 131 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note in green, yellow, orange and purple tones, with an intaglio portrait of Cape Verdean poet Jorge Barbosa at right centre against a guilloche underprint. A vignette of an open book with repeated security text appears at upper centre-left, with two facsimile signatures (O Governador and O Administrador) below. The date '5 de Julho de 2014' is inscribed at centre, with the denomination '500' rendered in large colour-shifting numerals at lower right and the bank name 'BANCO DE CABO VERDE' at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE CABO VERDE 500 ESCUDOS 5 de Julho de 2014 A LEI PUNE O CONTRAFACTOR Jorge Barbosa (Translation: Bank of Cape Verde 500 Escudos July 5, 2014 The law punishes the counterfeiter. Jorge Barbosa) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour design centred on a panoramic view of the Poilão Dam in the Santa Cruz municipal area of Santiago island, birthplace of Jorge Barbosa, with lines excerpted from Barbosa's poem 'Casebre' printed across the upper portion of the note. Guilloche patterning and secondary vignettes frame the central landscape scene. |
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