Angola 1992 50 kwanzas
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This specimen was lot 1666 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $600. The catalog description[1] noted, "ANGOLA: People's Republic, 50 kwanzas, 1992, copper-clad steel commemorative issue for the 15th Anniversary of the Angolan Kwanza Currency, a very rare modern issue, light surface hairlines, Unc, RR." After a protracted struggle, Angola obtained its independence in 1975 and then dissolved into civil war as various factions contended for control.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper-clad steel.
Catalog reference: KM-101, N-33456.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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