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| 正面描述 | Portrait of Vasco da Gama at left, with a secondary vignette of Vasco da Gama embarking at right; the bank's arms appear at upper right, and a red seal is placed at bottom center in two known varieties. The composition is executed in fine intaglio engraving against a guilloche underprint, with all principal legends in letterpress. |
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| 背面描述 | A central circular vignette enclosed within an intaglio-engraved medallion bears a seated allegorical female figure holding a model sailing ship, set against an elaborate guilloche background in brown and ochre tones. The bank's name arcs around the central medallion in bold letterpress, while the numeral "10" appears in large format at both left and right margins. At top, the branch payability inscription is printed in green letterpress within a rectangular panel. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was established in 1864 specifically to serve Portugal's overseas territories, and by 1909 it held note-issuing authority across a sprawling network of colonies from Mozambique to Timor. This particular note's issuing context matters: BNU operated not as a metropolitan central bank but as a colonial concessionary institution, meaning its notes circulated under terms set by government charter rather than standard banking law — a distinction that occasionally created legal ambiguities when notes crossed between territories.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement places this squarely in the premium end of colonial currency production for the period. Their intaglio work for BNU in this era was technically accomplished, and the firm handled similar commissions for British, Portuguese, and Latin American clients simultaneously.
P#7 is among the scarcer early BNU issues for this denomination, with surviving examples relatively few given the note's age and the tropical climates in which most circulated.