Currency history
Angolan escudo
Angolan escudo: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Roman solidus
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Angolan escudoSuccessor or branchAOA
Angolan kwanzaThe story
Angolan escudo → kwanza, 1977. [1]
The 1953 Organic Law prescribes escudo as monetary unit in all Portuguese overseas provinces, including Angola. This is a legal-unit anchor; the date is promulgation, not an established local cash changeover or exact commencement. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1124 ↗
- Portugal, official legislation · Portugal, Lei 2066, Lei Orgânica do Ultramar Português C1298 ↗
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“Angolan escudo.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000154.html