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1 Escudo
| Issuer | Banco da Beira |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and pink intaglio-printed note with a central guilloche band bearing the denomination UM ESCUDO in large letterpress text, flanked by four ornate corner medallions each inscribed ESCUDO. The Portuguese royal arms vignette appears at the upper centre, with the bank title BANCO DA BEIRA arching across the upper field above the promise clause PAGARÁ Á VISTA AO PORTADOR. A blue circular overprint stamp reading PRATA is applied at upper left, and the date BEIRA 15 de Setembro de 1919 appears at lower centre alongside two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | UM ESCUDO MOEDA CORRENTE BRADBURY WILKINSON & Cº LTº GRAVADORES LONDRES |
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Banco da Beira was a private colonial bank operating in Beira, Mozambique, then under Portuguese administration. Its authority to issue notes was limited in scope and geography, making this 1919 series a genuinely regional instrument — not a metropolitan Portuguese issue dressed up for the colonies, but a locally chartered bank exercising its own concession.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series in London, as they did for dozens of colonial and quasi-governmental issuers across the British and Portuguese spheres during this period. The R11A designation distinguishes this from related variants in the same issue, likely by signature combination or minor typographic detail.