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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Size | 131 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note in green, yellow, orange and purple tones, with an intaglio portrait of Cape Verdean poet Jorge Barbosa at right centre against a guilloche underprint. A vignette of an open book with repeated security text appears at upper centre-left, with two facsimile signatures (O Governador and O Administrador) below. The date '5 de Julho de 2014' is inscribed at centre, with the denomination '500' rendered in large colour-shifting numerals at lower right and the bank name 'BANCO DE CABO VERDE' at upper left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Colour-shifting ink |
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Cabo Verde's central bank has issued relatively few distinct note types since independence in 1975, and the 500 Escudo denomination has carried a disproportionate share of the daily transaction load in a small archipelago economy with limited coin penetration in rural islands. The 2014 series — of which this is part — was printed by Thomas De La Rue under a contract that also introduced colour-shifting ink to the Cabo Verdean series for the first time, bringing the islands' currency in line with regional West African security standards despite the escudo being entirely separate from the CFA franc zone.
Pick 72 is the most recent iteration of this denomination and remains current issue.