PRE INDEPENDENCE NOTE FROM MOZAMBIQUE

This is the 20 Centavos note. Its from Mozambique and was issued in 1933. Mozambique was a Portuguese colony from 1505 until 1975 when it became an independent country. In 1975 FRELIMO group,  who fought for independence, set up a Marxist government but within two years it fell into civil war with the anti-communist RENAMO which lasted until 1992. 


more notes from Mozambique HERE

MOZAMBIQUE

The Republic of Mozambique was a former colony of Portugal, which had colonised the country in the early 1500's , gained its independence in 1975 after a long guerilla war between the Portuguese and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO).

Monetary unit:
1 Escudo = 100 centavos (1911- 1975)
1 escudo = 1 metica = 100 centimos ( 1975 - onward)

The note above is the 10000 Meticais note from 1991 with a portrait of Joaquim Chissano, the second president of Mozambique and a farmer ploughing on the reverse.

This note, although marked with the date 27 de Marco de 1961, has an overprint of the bank name, "banco de Mozambique" which makes it the first issue of the new republic and , even though it hasn't got the new date on it, it dates from 1976. the portrait on the front is of Aires de Ornelas,  governor general of Mozambique from 1896 - 1898.