Catalog
5000 Dobras Millennium
| Issuer | Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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São Tomé and Príncipe issued a wave of large-format silver commemoratives in the late 1990s, many produced by European minting houses on contract rather than through any domestic facility — the islands have never operated their own mint. This piece was struck amid a period of significant monetary instability for the dobra, which had undergone a major devaluation and a peg arrangement with the Portuguese escudo in 1997 following an IMF-backed stabilization program.
At 163.5 grams of .925 silver, production costs almost certainly exceeded face value by a substantial margin — a common reality for the small-nation commemorative trade of the period.