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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Angola |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1958-1977) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camões (1524–1580) to the right, with the Portuguese-Angolan national coat of arms at centre, set against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination is printed below in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette of a palm tree — identified as an African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) rather than Cocos nucifera — with fronds and fruit clusters occupying the left and centre of the field, printed in green on a fine multicolour guilloche underprint. To the right, a large ornate numeral "100" is rendered in dark carmine within an elaborate scrollwork cartouche incorporating a geometric diamond-pattern band in red, green and blue, with a circular white watermark medallion at centre-right. |
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By 1973, Banco de Angola was issuing notes under increasing political pressure — the independence war that had begun in 1961 was entering its twelfth year, and Portuguese colonial administration was visibly strained. This note belongs to what would prove to be the final series issued under Portuguese authority before the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon changed everything. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had a long relationship with Portuguese colonial currency production.
Angola declared independence in November 1975, and the Banco de Angola series was superseded almost immediately by new Angolan kwanza issues, making the entire 1973 run short-lived in circulation terms.