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2 1/2 Angolares
| Issuer | Provincia de Angola - Junta da Moeda |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Size | 130 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central to the design is a finely engraved intaglio portrait vignette of Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510–1589), Portuguese colonizer and first Captain-Governor of Angola, set within an ornate frame of guilloche patterns and scroll borders characteristic of De La Rue craftsmanship, flanked by palm tree motifs. Issuing authority inscriptions appear above the central vignette, with the denomination legend below. The overall layout follows the formal colonial banknote tradition of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA PORTUGUÊSA 2 1/2 DOIS ANGOLARES E MEIO (Translation: Portuguese Republic, Two and a half Angolares) |
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Angola's 1926 Junta da Moeda series marked the colony's transition away from notes issued under the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, shifting fiduciary responsibility to a government treasury body — an arrangement common in Portuguese overseas territories during the fiscal tightening of the mid-1920s. De La Rue's London presses produced the series, as they did for much of Portugal's colonial note output during this period.
The 2½ angolar denomination is the fractional oddity of the set. Such fractional values typically addressed a specific coin shortage in local circulation rather than reflecting any standard monetary division.