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2500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Value | 2500 Escudos (2500 CVE) |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio on multicolour underprint. An intaglio portrait vignette of Amilcar Cabral is positioned at right, with a geometric guilloche panel in purple and brown tones occupying the centre-left field. The date and serial number appear vertically along the right margin, with two facsimile signatures at lower left below the issuer name. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE CABO VERDE A LEI PUNE O CONTRAFACTOR 2500 DOIS MIL E QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS (Translation: Bank of Cape Verde The law punishes the counterfeiter Two Thousand and Five Hundred Escudos) |
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The 2500 Escudos denomination was the highest value note Banco de Cabo Verde had issued to that point, introduced as the archipelago's economy was beginning to open cautiously after over a decade of single-party socialist rule under the PAIGC and its successor PAICV. The escudo had been reintroduced as a distinct Cape Verdean currency only in 1977, severing the monetary link with Guinea-Bissau that independence had initially preserved.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable for Lusophone African issuers of the period — they held contracts across much of the region. Watermark-only security on a high-denomination note reflects the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting expectations applied to small island economies at the time.