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Cape Verde banknotes
Cape Verde paper money catalog and Cape Verdean currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Portuguese currency, till 1897
  • Mil Reis = 1000 Reis, 1897-1911
  • Escudo = (Mil Reis) =100 Centavos, from 1911

• For earlier issues see:
  • Portugal, till 1897

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  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Portuguese Colony till 1975
1-3	1897	1, 2.50, 5 mil reis
4-9	1909	1000, 2500 reis, 5, 10, 20, 50 mil reis
10-17	1914	4, 5, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10, 20, 20, 50, 50 centavos; overprint "S.Tiago"
18-19	1920	10, 50 centavos; Cabo Verde
20-22A	1914(1921)	10, 20, 50, 50 centavos; overprint "Cabo Verde"
23-28	1909(1922)	1000, 2500 reis, 5, 10, 20, 50 mil reis; overprint "Emissao Chamice"
29-31	1921(1922)	20, 50, 100 escudos; overprint "Cabo Verde"
32-38	1921	1, 5, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 escudos
40	1941	1.000 escudos
41-46	1945	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 escudos
47-50	1958	20, 50, 100, 500 escudos
52-53A	1970-71	20, 50, 500 escudos
		Republic from 1975
54-56	1977	100, 500, 1.000 escudos
57-61	1989	100, 200, 500, 1.000, 2.500 escudos
63-65	1992	200, 500, 1.000 escudos
66-67	1999-	2.000, 5.000 escudos
68	2005	200 escudos
69-70	2007	500, 1.000 escudos
71-5	2014	200, 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000 escudos
76	2019	200 escudos