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1 Escudo
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 1$00 DECRETO N.º 17.154 MOÇAMBIQUE COLÓNIA PORTUGUESA UM ESCUDO LISBOA, 23 de Maio de 1944 O ADMINISTRADOR O PRESIDENTE DO CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO ANTONIO ENNES BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO COLONIAS COMMERCIO AGRICULTURA BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO Lº GRAVADORES, LONDRES |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an elaborate multicolour guilloche design in green, red, and blue, with intricate lathe-work patterns filling the entire field. At the centre top, the Portuguese Coat of Arms appears within a circular wreath of laurel branches. At the lower centre, a cartouche formed by ornamental scrollwork carries the denomination inscription UM ESCUDO in green intaglio lettering. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino's wartime 1 Escudo issues for Portuguese Guinea were produced by Bradbury Wilkinson at a moment when the colony's low-denomination paper currency was effectively doing the work that coins could not reliably supply. Metal shortages during the Second World War disrupted coin production and distribution across Portuguese Africa, pushing small-value notes into everyday transactional use they would not otherwise have seen.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on minor colonial issues of this period is consistently fine, often exceeding what the denomination itself demanded.