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10 000 Réis
| Uitgever | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1909 |
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| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Central oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure holding a model sailing vessel, with a tall-masted ship rendered in the background. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large script to either side of the central vignette, all framed within elaborate guilloche lacework borders in brown tones, with the bank name arching across the top of the central oval. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM LOANDA BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO (Translation: Payable at the branch in Luanda, National Overseas Bank) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied a peculiar institutional position: chartered in Lisbon in 1864, it functioned as the privileged note-issuing bank across Portugal's overseas territories, not the metropole itself. By 1909, it was circulating currency in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé, and Portuguese India simultaneously — each territory a separate monetary jurisdiction, though often drawing on shared plate designs.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement places this firmly in the premium tier of colonial note production. The firm's intaglio work was among the finest available to any issuing authority in the Edwardian period, and BNU returned to them repeatedly across decades of colonial note contracts.
Which territory this specific P#34 was destined for is the critical question — the Ultramarino series of this period can be deceptively difficult to attribute without the overprint or payable text.