20 Escudos Brown Booby

Features

Issuer	Cape Verde
Ruling authority	Republic (1975-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1994
Value	20 Escudos 20 CVE = USD 0.21
Currency	Escudo (1975-date)
Composition	Nickel plated steel
Weight	5.9 g
Diameter	25 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 8504
References	KM# 30 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Brown Booby

Series: Bird Fauna of Cabo Verde Islands Series

Obverse

The national emblem of Cape Verde dividing the date below and the denomination at the bottom

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPÚBLICA DE CABO VERDE
19 94
20
ESCUDOS

Translation:
Republic of Cape Verde
1994
20
Escudos

Reverse

The Sula leucogaster, the scientific name of the Brown Booby,and the name Alcatraz, the Portuguese name for the black-backed gull, (Larus marinus) at the bottom

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Sula Leucogaster Boddaert
ALCATRAZ

Translation:
Sula Leucogaster Boddaert
Black-backed gull

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date)

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Date	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
1994	$ 1.10	$ 1.10	$ 1.50	$ 1.70	$ 1.70	$ 2.80		98%
1994						$ 3.40	In sets only	2%

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