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50 Dobras
| Issuer | Banco Central de S. Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 2016-2024 |
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| Size | 145 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large vignette of the national arms at upper left, accompanied by a multicolour underprint incorporating the map of São Tomé and Príncipe in teal and orange tones. The Banco Central building in São Tomé occupies the lower centre, with two facsimile signatures positioned above — those of the Minister of Finance, Commerce and Blue Economy, and the Governor of the Central Bank. A small holographic vignette of a Charaxes lemosi butterfly appears at right, and the denomination numeral "50" is rendered in large intaglio print at lower right, with the bank title "BANCO CENTRAL DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE" in bold lettering across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed cartographic vignette of the São Tomé and Príncipe archipelago rendered in multicolour guilloche against a light lavender background. A vignette of the endemic tchintchinchólò (Ploceus sanctithomae), the São Tomé weaver bird, is set within the composition, with the denomination title and bank name repeated in the surrounding lettering. The overall colour palette transitions from warm browns and oranges on the left to cooler greens and blues toward the right margin. |
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São Tomé and Príncipe has maintained the dobra through two separate currencies — the original dobra (STD) ran from 1977 until 2018, when the country redenominated at 1,000:1 and introduced the second dobra (STN). This note belongs to the transitional series that straddled that reform, remaining legal tender across the changeover as the central bank worked through a phased replacement of older stock.
Thomas De La Rue has printed São Tomé's banknotes for decades, a relationship typical of Lusophone African states whose printing infrastructure remains outsourced to European security printers. At the 50 dobra denomination, actual demand in circulation is low — the note occupies an awkward position just above coinage thresholds.