Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 000 Dobras
| Issuer | Banco Central de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
|---|---|
| Year | 2005-2013 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 150 × 67 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | At right, a portrait vignette of poet Francisco José Tenreiro. At upper centre-right, the national coat of arms is positioned above a compass rose. At centre, an African grey parrot vignette is set within a guilloche underprint, overlaid with a verse from Tenreiro's poem Coração em Africa. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE AUTO DE FLORIPES CEM MIL DOBRAS (Translation: Central Bank of Sao Tome and Principe Auto de Floripes festival One Hundred Thousand Dobras) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
São Tomé and Príncipe adopted the dobra as its currency in 1977 following independence from Portugal, but by the 2000s chronic inflation had pushed face values into six figures for everyday transactions. The 100,000 dobra denomination, introduced in 2005, was among the highest-value notes the central bank had ever issued — a direct consequence of decades of monetary pressure on what remains one of the smallest economies in Africa.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is routine for Francophone and Lusophone African issuers of this period, though the security package on P#69 is relatively lean for the denomination: watermark only, without the foil strip or color-shifting ink found on contemporaneous high-value issues from comparable nations.