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10 000 Reis Bolama seal
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Size | 177 × 106 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark-green intaglio print on multicolour guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of Vasco da Gama at left, with a vignette of his sailing vessel at right; a red Type I Bolama agency seal applied at lower centre. The overall design is characteristic of Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved colonial-issue style of the early twentieth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO O THESOUREIRO DA AGENCIA DE BOLAMA PAGARA A VISTA A PORTADOR DEZ MIL REIS EM MOEDA CORRENTE VALOR RECIBIDO LISBOA, I DE MARÇO DE 1909. (Translation: National Bank Overseas the Treasurer of the Agency of Bolama pay to the bearer Ten Thousand Reis in currency amount received Lisbon, March 1, 1909.) |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino served as the colonial note-issuing bank for Portuguese overseas territories, and this 10,000 Réis note carries the Bolama seal — identifying it for circulation in Portuguese Guinea, whose administrative capital at the time was Bolama rather than Bissau. That distinction matters: notes of the same Bradbury Wilkinson printing were overprinted or sealed for different territories, and the Bolama designation makes this the rarer variant within what was otherwise a shared colonial issue.
By 1909, Bolama was already beginning its slow administrative decline; Bissau would eventually supersede it as capital in 1941.