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100 Réis Bronze
| Issuer | Provincia de Angola |
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| Year | 1892-1895 |
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| Value | 100 Réis |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unadorned, printed in a light brownish ink on worn paper. The denomination CEM RÉIS appears at the top centre in capital letters, followed below by the text Repartição de fazenda provincial in Gothic-style letterpress script. A serial number is printed in the lower left area. The overall design is austere, consistent with provincial emergency or auxiliary currency issues of the period. |
| Reverse lettering | CEM RÉIS Repartição de fazenda provincial (Translation: One Hundred Réis, Provincial Treasury Office) |
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Angola's Provincia-era fractional notes exist because silver coinage was chronically absent from everyday commerce along the coast — Portuguese metropolitan currency rarely made it into the interior in usable quantities, and what did arrive tended to disappear into hoarding. The Provincia de Angola's paper réis were a local administrative workaround, not a formal banking product.
The "Bronze" designation in the series name refers to the metallic currency these notes were intended to substitute, not to any material property of the paper itself. Pick 20A is among the scarcer surviving pieces from this short-lived fractional issue, which was effectively obsolete once the Banco Nacional Ultramarino consolidated its circulation authority in the territory.