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1000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of the Portuguese explorer João de Santarém appears at right, with the bank seal at centre. The note is an overprint on the earlier Banco Nacional Ultramarino P#40 issue, with the new bank name — Banco Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe — and the date 1 de Junho de 1976 applied in red letterpress on both sides. |
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| Reverse description | Green. A central vignette presents a female allegorical figure alongside ships at sea. The new bank name, updated date, and authorising signatures are applied in red overprint over the original Banco Nacional Ultramarino reverse design, clearly distinguishing the 1976 reissue from the underlying 1964 note. |
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São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal in July 1975, and this note — issued the following year — belongs to the country's first sovereign currency series. The Banco Nacional was established almost simultaneously with independence, meaning the monetary infrastructure had to be built from scratch at extraordinary speed. Bradbury Wilkinson, then still operating out of New Malden, had long experience supplying newly independent nations with their inaugural paper.
The 1,000 escudo denomination is the highest in the P#48 series, making surviving circulated examples harder to find than the lower values — high-denomination notes in small island economies tend to pass through fewer hands but get worn faster by each one.