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5000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Peso (1975-1997) |
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| Reverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents two agricultural labourers harvesting crops in a rice paddy field, with a rural landscape and riverway extending into the background; a thatched granary vignette appears at upper left alongside a torch motif at lower left. Denomination numerals in brown are positioned at all four corners, framed by fine guilloche lacework borders. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DA GUINÉ-BISSAU A LEI PUNE O CONTRAFACTOR CINCO MIL PESOS (Translation: National Bank of Guinea-Bissau The law punishes the counterfeiter Five Thousand Pesos) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed for dozens of post-colonial governments during the 1970s and 1980s, and this note is characteristic of that period's output from their New Malden facility — technically competent work produced under a business model that relied heavily on newly independent African and Asian states needing turnkey currency solutions. Guinea-Bissau had only gained independence from Portugal in 1974, and the Banco Nacional was still a young institution when this 5000 Pesos note was issued.
Bradbury Wilkinson was acquired by American Bank Note Company in 1990, effectively ending over a century of independent operation. This note falls in the final years of their active production.