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100 Angolares
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Value | 100 Angolares |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio portrait vignette of Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides (1594–1688), the Portuguese admiral and colonial administrator renowned for recapturing Angola and São Tomé from the Dutch in 1648, set against fine guilloche underprint work. A secondary vignette of flamingos is integrated into the overall composition. The issuing authority and denomination are inscribed in letterpress across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ANGOLA CEM ANGOLARES THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY. LTD. LONDRES, INGLATERRA. (Translation: Bank of Angola, One Hundred Angolares, Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. London, England.) |
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Banco de Angola was established by Portuguese colonial decree in 1926, replacing the Banco Nacional Ultramarino as the sole note-issuing authority in Angola. This 100 Angolares belongs to the bank's inaugural series — the first notes issued under its own name rather than through a Lisbon-based overseas institution. De La Rue's involvement was the default choice for Portuguese colonial currency at this period; the same London firm handled much of Portugal's own domestic production.
The angolar itself was a new unit, introduced to replace the older réis-based system at a rate of 100 réis to the centavo. A clean decimal reset for a colonial economy the Salazar-era administration was just beginning to reorganize.