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5000 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE ANGOLA 5000 A VITÓRIA É CERTA (Translation: National Bank of Angola, Victory is Certain) |
| Reverse description | An intaglio landscape vignette of the Quedas de Kalandula occupies the left and central portions of the note, rendered with detailed treatment of the falls, surrounding vegetation, and rocky outcroppings. The national coat of arms of Angola appears at lower left, while a guilloche panel bearing the denomination numeral 5000 is placed at centre right alongside a stylised traditional Angolan carved figurine in red at the far right. |
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Angola's 1991 5000 Kwanza note arrived during an acute phase of the civil war, when the MPLA government was burning through hard currency reserves and inflation was accelerating rapidly enough to make large-denomination notes obsolete almost immediately after printing. Thomas De La Rue produced the series in London under conditions where the Angolan state could barely guarantee distribution infrastructure in rebel-held territories.
The kwanza itself would be replaced by the kwanza reajustado in 1995 at a rate of 1000:1 — a ratio that tells you more about this note's purchasing-power trajectory than any circulation report could.