Cape Verde 200 Escudos Banknote, 2014, P-71s, UNC, Polymer, Specimen

This uncirculated 200 Cape Verdean escudo banknote is a specimen banknote issued by the Bank of Cape Verde in 2014. It is a red, purple, and yellowish-green polymer banknote that is dated 5 June 2014, bears the signatures of Bank Administrator Manuel Pinto Frederico and Bank Governor Carlos Augusto de Burgo, and measures 124 mm x 63 mm. Its obverse side contains a map of Fogo, a bunch of grapes, an embossed pen nib, a diagonal red SPECIMEN overprint, a horizontal red # overprint, an all-zero serial number, and a portrait of doctor and writer Henrique Teixeira de Sousa. Its reverse side shows a bunch of grapes, the Pico do Fogo stratovolcano, and a diagonal red SPECIMEN overprint. Because it is a polymer note, it does not have a security thread or a watermark.