100 Escudos

By 1962, Angola was already three years into the armed insurgency that would eventually end Portuguese colonial rule, though Banco de Angola continued issuing notes through London-based printers as though the political situation were entirely stable. Thomas De La Rue had handled Angolan colonial currency for decades, and this 100 Escudos fits squarely within that long-running contract relationship.

The watermark remains the primary security feature — modest by any measure, but consistent with De La Rue's approach to colonial-series notes of this period, where anti-counterfeiting investment rarely matched what was applied to metropolitan Portuguese issues.