One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor. Current currency in the inherited endpoint register. Dated observations: 1853–1977; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
Portuguese realaccount unit branching · qualified · 1853–1865
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Cabo Verde Escudo — endpoint research dossierFTM000757 · C584
National notes replace BNU issues · C1160
Earlier accounting observation · C1191
Earlier accounting observation · C1191
Cabo Verde receives an independent statutory account-conversion anchor for 1914; retain existing older Cape Verde ancestry and do not invent another 1914 currency. · C1295
Latest research
Earlier unit continuity
Cabo Verde’s national escudo notes replaced Banco Nacional Ultramarino notes in 1977. This documents an issuer/issue transition; a distinct colonial-to-national account-unit boundary has not been established.
Cabo Verde had locally differentiated real issues by 1865 and escudo accounting from 1914. This is a qualified extension of the existing identity; the 1977 issuer change does not create another currency.
Cabo Verde had locally differentiated real issues by 1865 and escudo accounting from 1914. This is a qualified extension of the existing identity; the 1977 issuer change does not create another currency.
Cabo Verde receives an independent statutory account-conversion anchor for 1914; retain existing older Cape Verde ancestry and do not invent another 1914 currency.
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1914supported
Cabo Verde receives an independent statutory account-conversion anchor for 1914; retain existing older Cape Verde ancestry and do not invent another 1914 currency.
C1295
Monetary history 1 events
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
1977: national issueNational currency issue
The bank's institutional timeline dates the first national currency issue to 1977.
C584
Evidence & research notes 5 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C584
The bank's institutional timeline dates the first national currency issue to 1977.
Read the full brochure and original 1977 issue notice, earlier Cape Verde escudo identity and Portuguese-escudo exchange terms; do not call every issuer issue a new unit.
Substantive search-indexed passage inspected; direct full-document retrieval failed or returned blocking/error content.
Inference C1160
Cabo Verde’s national escudo notes replaced Banco Nacional Ultramarino notes in 1977. This documents an issuer/issue transition; a distinct colonial-to-national account-unit boundary has not been established.
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Search-indexed central-bank history inspected; direct retrieval failed.
Inference C1168
Cabo Verde’s real/escudo continuity is provisionally traced to regional differentiation from Portuguese-real accounting during 1853–1865. Local currency arrangements and issues support this qualified branch; the exact account-law boundary remains open.
Patrick Imam · Patrick Imam, Introducing the Euro as Legal Tender—Benefits and Costs of Eurorization for Cape Verde, IMF WP09/146 (2009)Citation S565 · Open source ↗
Appendix 1, pp.30–33, especially p.30 and historical table
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Inference C1191
Cabo Verde had locally differentiated real issues by 1865 and escudo accounting from 1914. This is a qualified extension of the existing identity; the 1977 issuer change does not create another currency.
Patrick Imam · Patrick Imam, Introducing the Euro as Legal Tender—Benefits and Costs of Eurorization for Cape Verde, IMF WP09/146 (2009)Citation S565 · Open source ↗
Appendix 1, pp.30–33, especially p.30 and historical table
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1295
Cabo Verde receives an independent statutory account-conversion anchor for 1914; retain existing older Cape Verde ancestry and do not invent another 1914 currency.