According to a press release, on 15 April 2025 the Banco de Cabo Verde introduced new 1,000- and 2,000-escudo notes. This 2,000-escudo note is like the preceding issue (B220), but with a lightend photo of her as a young woman on front, and a vertical line of MORNA2000 microtext addedRead More…
According to a press release, on 15 April 2025 the Banco de Cabo Verde introduced new 1,000- and 2,000-escudo notes. This 1,000-escudo note is like the preceding issue (B219), but with the holographic patch replaced by a holographic stripe, and with an outline map of Santigo island municipalities added toRead More…
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According to a press release, on 8 January 2021 the Banco de Cabo Verde introduced a new 200-escudo note like the preceding issues, but printed on cotton paper, not polymer, thereby standardizing all denominations on the same substrate. The new note also adds the dates (1919 – 2019) to theRead More…
Like B217a, but printed on paper, not polymer.Read More…
According to a CNN article dated 1 July 2019, the Economic Community of West African States (consisting of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo) has adopted the name “eco” for a planned single currency toRead More…
According to a press release dated 8 September 2015, the Banco de Cabo Verde planned to introduce new 500- and 5,000-escudo notes on 10 September 2015, thereby completing the new family which consists of 100-, 1,000-, and 2,000-escudo notes issued on 24 December 2014. B218 (P72): 500 escudos (US$5.40) Green,Read More…
B217 (P71): 200 escudos (US$2.15) Red, purple, and yellowish-green. Front: Portuguese text; map of Fogo; bunch of grapes; doctor and writer Henrique Teixeira de Sousa; embossed pen nib. Back: Portuguese text; bunch of grapes; Pico do Fogo stratovolcano. No security thread. Watermark: None. Printer: (De La Rue). 124 x 63Read More…
According to an article on MacauHub dated 2 January 2015, the Bank of Cabo Verde has introduced new 500- and 5,000-escudo notes, thereby completing the new series of notes which also include 200, 1,000 and 2,000 escudo denominations reportedly introduced on 23 December 2014. Courtesy of Cleo Phas and DavidRead More…
According to an article on OceanPress dated 22 December 2014, on 23 December the Banco de Cabo Verde will introduce new 200-, 1,000- and 2,000-escudo banknotes, the first in a new family honoring Cape Verdean figures in the fields of literature, music, and politics. The 200-escudo note is printed onRead More…