5 Angolares 1926, Angola
| in Krause book | Number: 66 |
| Years of issue: | 14.08.1926 |
| Edition: | |
| Signatures: | Unknown signature |
| Serie: | Decree No.12131 of 14.08.1926 |
| Specimen of: | 14.08.1926 |
| Material: | Cotton fiber |
| Size (mm): | 140 х 90 |
| Printer: | Thomas de la Rue and coy, LTD, Londres |
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Description
Watermark:
Portugese coat of arms.
Avers:
On the left side is Paulo Dias de Novais.
Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510 – 9 may 1589), a fidalgo of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the XVI century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias.
Known as the founder of the city of Luanda.
In the late 1550s, as the commander of the squadron, went with the Portuguese embassy in the kingdom of Ndongo, in northern Angola, and lived there for several years.
In 1571, the king appointed Dias as the governor of Angola and ordered him to establish a settlement on its territory. October 23, 1574 Paulo Dias with four hundred soldiers and hundreds of families of settlers sailed from Lisbon to Africa.
Novais arrived in Angola on 11 February 1575. Attracted by the prospect of the famous silver mines of Cambambe, he founded the settlement of São Paulo de Luanda (at the River Basin, District Kwanzaa, where was founded the fort of San-Miguel, and around him - the settlement of São Paulo de Luanda). This Portuguese colony has become a reference point for the Portuguese conquests in the territory of Angola. Even 30 years later, in 1605, it acquired the status of the city Luanda.
In the lower corners are stylized columns.
At the bottom is the coat of arms of Portugal.
The coat of arms of Portugal was officially adopted on 30 June 1911, along with the republican flag of Portugal. It is based on the coat of arms used by the Portuguese Kingdom since the Middle Ages.
The Portuguese coat of arms is the result of almost a millennium of modifications and alterations. Starting with Henry of Burgundy blue cross on a silver shield, successive elements were added or taken, culminating with the complex heraldic design that was officially adopted in 1911 (after the Republican Revolution of 1910). The two stripes bear the colours of the Portuguese flag: red and green.
Quinas:
After the official recognition of the Kingdom of Portugal as an independent country in 1143 (it had been declared in 1139), silver bezants were added to the Burgundian flag, symbolising coins and the right the monarch had to issue currency, as leader of a sovereign state. Eventually, and given the enormous dynamism of medieval heraldry, it is believed that the shield degraded and lost some elements in battle, eventually losing the cross format. This is how King Sancho I inherited the shield from his father, Afonso Henriques, with no cross and the quinas (the five escutcheons with the silver bezants) in its place.
Later, the number of silver bezants in each escutcheon would be reduced from eleven to five by King Sebastian I, and modern explanations interpret them as the five wounds of Jesus Christ, although this is highly improbable.
Castles:
It was during the reign of Afonso III that the red border with golden castles (not towers, as some sources state) was added. Although the number of castles could vary between eight to twelve, Afonso IV would define them as twelve and Sebastian I would finally fix them as seven. They supposedly represent the Moorish castles conquered by the Kingdom of Portugal during the Reconquista. Their origin is probably Castilian, but unlike Spanish castles, which usually have their gates coloured blue (hence opened), Portuguese castles were always depicted with gold gates (hence closed). As a matter of fact, Afonso III was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and thus was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother King Sancho II of Portugal. As a second son, the coat of arms of Afonso III included both the arms of his father and the arms of his mother Urraca of Castile, thus the Castillan red border with golden castillan castles, around the Portuguese shield inherited from his father.
Armillary sphere:
An important element of Portuguese heraldry since the 15th century, the armillary sphere was many times used in Portuguese colonial flags, mainly in Brazil. It was a navigation instrument used to calculate distances and represents the importance of Portugal during the Age of Discovery, as well as the vastness of its colonial empire when the First Republic was implemented.
Although it is commonly used as a "republican" element, as opposed to the monarchist crown in the blue/white flag (see Flag of Portugal), some monarchist flags, such as the flag of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, already depicted armillary spheres. The incorporation of the armillary sphere into the 1816 flag of the United Kingdom of Portugal is related to the adoption of the first flag of the Kingdom of Brazil, an armillary sphere on a blue background.
The coat of arms sported different crowns during imperial rule of Portuguese and foreign crowns:
Pre mid-1500s the coat of arms had an open imperial crown,
Crown of the House of Habsburg,
Various crowns of the House of Braganza (1640-1817),
Crown of João VI (1817-1910).
It is not yet clear what kind of landscape of Angola is shown on the banknote. Information wanted!
Denominations in numerals are in all corners, in words centered.
Revers:
On right side is an African bush elephant, coming out of bush (looks very wise). Symbolizes the protection of wildlife.
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant.
Both it and the African forest elephant have in the past been classified as a single species, known simply as the African elephant, but recent preliminary evidence has seen the forest elephant classified as a distinct species (although this status is not conclusively accepted due to concerns over conservation strategies until the reclassification is formalized).
Denomination in numerals is on right side. Lower in words.
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