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1000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 1000 Escudos |
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| Obverse description | This emergency cheque-style issue is printed in red on white paper with a central guilloche underprint bearing the bank seal. The text fields are arranged in a standard cheque layout, with the handwritten date '21 de Junho de 1976', serial number, and denomination 'Esc.=1000$00' in the upper right; the payable instruction and bearer clause appear in the centre, with a manuscript authorisation signature at lower right under the bank's name. The reverse carries a mirror-image bleed-through impression of the obverse text and a faint watermark-style bank seal vignette. |
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| Protection description | Bank seal watermark visible in the paper. |
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São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal in July 1975, and this note — issued the following year — was part of the first independent currency series for the new republic. The Banco Nacional was established specifically to replace the Portuguese colonial monetary apparatus, and Thomas De La Rue supplied the printing, as they did for dozens of newly independent states across Africa and the Atlantic during this period.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, modest even by 1970s standards for a high-denomination note. P#51 is the top value in the inaugural series, which itself lasted only until the 1982 dobra redenomination abolished the escudo entirely.