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UPDATE - CAPE VERDE



FV: $12.80    EST CAT: $30.00-32.00

CAPE VERDE PNL 1,000 Escudos 25.9.2007

27 Sep, 2007 - The Bank of Cape Verde will present the new 1,000-escudo bills on 25 September 2007 in Mindelo. The new bills will feature new security elements, as well as a portrait of writer Antonio Aurelio Goncalves. The 1,000-escudo bills currently in use will not be taken out of circulation. Compliments of Cleo Phas.


22 Mar, 2007 - Cape Verde: Ronny Hick has provided a detailed description of the new Cape Verde 500 Escudos 2007 note, originally reported here on 06 Mar, 2007.

Description:
Front side: Portrait Roberto Duarte Silva, chemical symbols Back side: "Trapiches" on the Island Santa Antгo. ("Trapiche" is a portuguese word, and means a press. You can extract the juice from sugar-cane with it. It's used to made "Aguadente", a rum. Cows are running in a circle to drive the press.)
Size: 130 mm * 65 mm
Watermark: Portrait Roberto Duarte Silva. Roberto Duarte Silva was a capeverdean chemist and lived from 1837 to 1889.

10 Mar, 2007 - Cape Verde: New date of the Cape Verbe P65 500 Escudos dated 2002 has been reported by Rafal Nogowczyk.


     

CAPE VERDE PNEW 500 Escudos 25.2.2007

06 Mar, 2007 - Cape Verde has released a new, 25.2.2007, 500 Escudos banknote with a new signature combination. Compliments of Claudio Marana, and Cleo Phas.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION




CAPE VERDE PNL 1,000 Escudos 1.7.2002

New Cape Verde 1,000 Escudos dated 1.7.2002, similar to P65. The note has new signatures and new signature titles (Governador and Administrador). Printing company is Thomas de la Rue and Company Limited. Date of 1.7.2002 have also been reported for other denominations by Ronny Hick

Note is not listed in SCWPM, VOL III, 11th Ed., Image and information compliments of Ronny Hick.


   
CAPE VERDE PNL 200 Escudos 20.1.2005

Note is not listed in SCWPM, VOL III, 11th Ed., Similar to P63

Dimension: 121 X 62 mm
Predominant Color: Green

The issuance of this new version of the 200$ note (two hundred shields) comes in the sequence of the process of revision of the previous note family of The Bank of Cape Verde, initiate in 1999, dictated for the necessity of incorporation in notes of the last on technological advances to the security.

The front of the note is dominated by the picture of the Schooner Ernestina, placed on a medallion that represents the firm. On this medallion, and on the left side of the note, the text "20 of January of 2005", date of its issue. On the base of support of the picture of the Ernestina, and on a band in the green color clearly, there appears enrolled the text "200 TWO HUNDRED SHIELDS", in two lines. This band has covered the watermark, worked from a picture of Amí¬£ar Cabral, and supports circular elements that is developed throughout all the width of the note. On this same band is placed the designation "BANK OF CAPE VERDE, in two lines. The vertical numeration of the note with the numbers esculating, with dark green color and printed with fluorescent ink, in the right side. Also on the band a detail of the cloth-of-workmanship, printed matter in intaglio, and that it serves as element of identification of the note for deficient appearances. On a horizontal band, left represents the sea, is appositive the horizontal numeration of the note with the numbers esculating, which is printed with legible magnetic ink for machines to read. In the verse of the note an allusive composition to some medias meets, on which it clearly appears a band in the green color. On the left, vertically the drawing of a guided spike of maize. Of the right side of this band the weapons of the Republic of Cape Verde. The safety thread, introduced in the verse of the note is soaked in the paper, and has legible properties for classificadora machine. The strip is made of fluorescent staple fibres, 100% cotton, and is dealt with with a protective layer platinum to increase its durability. Translated from Bank of Cape Verde website.

Additional information concerning the Schooner Ernestina.