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50 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an intaglio portrait vignette of Dr. António Agostinho Neto (1922–1979), first President of Angola, poet and statesman, set against a background vignette of workers in the fields. The denomination numeral appears at lower left, framed within guilloche-patterned borders typical of the series. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQUENTA KWANZAS República Popular ANGOLA (Translation: Fifty Kwanzas / People's Republic of Angola) |
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Angola's first post-independence banknote series, of which this is part, was issued just months after the MPLA government formally took power in November 1975. Contracting Thomas De La Rue was a practical necessity — Angola had no domestic printing infrastructure, and the new Banco Nacional required a credible series quickly.
The 1976 kwanza series replaced the Angolan escudo at par, severing the currency's formal link to Portugal. De La Rue's involvement in newly independent African states during this period was extensive enough that several contemporaneous issues share detectable similarities in paper stock and security thread specification.