Comments on "Modern coinage of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)"

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Parent topic:  Modern coinage of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
The parent topic (above) gives an overview of the coinage of Cabo Verde.

Please post any comments, questions or corrections in this topic here.

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Cape Verde, 20, Escudos 1977 - Domingos Ramos - a bimetallic obverse and reverse uniface trial pair, courtesy of London Coins.

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Does anybody know the species of fish shown in the first posts?

[gerard974]

To be continued - comments are welcome in the meantime.

Does anybody know the species of fish shown in the first posts?

hello
i think that is the tun fish
best regards Gerard

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Thank you. The country has featured tuna fish on its commemoratives before. I think it's an important part of the economy.

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Here is a question. Which of the three sets is most commonly found in circulation? Which is cheapest to buy? I would suspect the animals, in both cases. The ship coins are probably the most scarce. I did buy all three sets, back in the 1990s.

I also believe that, of the bimetallic coins, the versions with the bronze ring are more scarce.

[eurocoin]

A very nice topic about a very unusual but well designed currency project of Cape Verde. In the approx. 150 kilos of circulated world coins I have processed over the years, there was only ever 1 coin from Cape Verde being the 5 Escudos featuring the osprey so that may be an indication that the series featuring animals is more common.

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Reverse of the 5 escudos coin of 1994.

The reverse of the 5 escudos features an osprey.

I have seen many images of this beautiful design over the years.


Amazingly, it was only yesterday that I noticed that the bird is clutching a fish.

Previously, the fish must have merged with the rock in my mind.


Perhaps there is just too much going on in this design.

See:  Birds catching fish.

[coinote]

Does the bank still have enough stock of uncirculated 1994 dated coins? Or it only has circulated ones.
It's unusual that the whole coin series minted 30 years ago are still in circulation today without any new dates.

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Cabo Verde is listed as one of the countries that no longer use circulation coins.

Could high inflation be the cause>

See: Countries with their own currency that no longer issue circulation coins.

[Big_M]

Cabo Verde is listed as one of the countries that no longer use circulation coins.

Could high inflation be the cause>

See: Countries with their own currency that no longer issue circulation coins.

They are probably re-minted with date unchanged. I suspect 'birds' series was re-minted in 2009, as the central bank issued a coin set which they refer to as 2009 but in fact it contains the 1994 birds series in uncirculated condition (100 escudos with brass ring). The packaging is a black leather case used in the UK proof sets of that period.

The coins do circulate, info from a recent visit by a friend.

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I see. So the frozen date can confuse people.

You think I should remove Cabo Verde from the list?

[coinote]

Cape verde does use coins, and the face value of their coins are quite high comparing to other African countries, 100Escudos is more or less one US dollar.

[stef]

It seems that initially, all 100$00 coins were minted with a bronze ring. The bank was not happy with the quality and all 300 015 coins were melted (BU and proof were not melted) and minted again with an Al-bronze ring. For more details you can check MINT-42-LS-Z (large pdf) from the RM archive.