Evidence coverage: 1911–1977. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Add São Tomé’s statutory public/private account-system anchor effective 1 January 1914. Independence overprinting is an issuer phase.
Sources and qualifications →1913law mandates metropolitan-system publicaccounts from1914 and equivalents in private documents; territorialescudo adoption is explicit. Account adoption firm; law alone doesnot prove newlydistinct regionalunit. Preserve profilepending independentboundary evidence.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Add São Tomé’s statutory public/private account-system anchor effective 1 January 1914. Independence overprinting is an issuer phase.
C1294Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Decree-law 23/76 governed the transition from the São Tomé escudo to the dobra, whose first series circulated in 1977.
Historical background and decree-law 23/76; escudo-to-dobra transition
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mark indexed, not newly inspected statute.
Connect São Tomé’s local escudo account profile to the explicitly adopted metropolitan monetary system, qualified for unresolved earlier local history.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V25-006. Account adoption firm; law alone doesnot prove newlydistinct regionalunit. Preserve profilepending independentboundary evidence. Replacement evidence: C1584.
Diário do Governo no.219, printed pp.3540–3541 / PDF pp.4–5; preamble; article 1 and §§1–2; articles 3 and 5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Add São Tomé’s statutory public/private account-system anchor effective 1 January 1914. Independence overprinting is an issuer phase.
Diário do Governo no.219, printed pp.3540–3541 / PDF pp.4–5; preamble; article 1 and §§1–2; articles 3 and 5; Historical introduction and quoted founding enactments
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Diário do Governo no.219, printed pp.3540–3541 / PDF pp.4–5; preamble; article 1 and §§1–2; articles 3 and 5; Historical introduction and quoted founding enactments
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mark indexed, not newly inspected statute.
1913law mandates metropolitan-system publicaccounts from1914 and equivalents in private documents; territorialescudo adoption is explicit.
printedpp3540–3541,article1; prior territorial25.json
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.