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10 Centavos seal type III
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Portuguese Escudo (1914-1975) |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the Portuguese Coat of Arms at right and the green bank seal type III at bottom centre. The issuing authority, denomination, date, and printer's imprint are inscribed across the face within a formal typographic layout. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue intaglio print over a yellow guilloche underprint, centred on an oval vignette in which an allegorical female figure is seated in the foreground, gesturing toward a harbour scene with a sailing vessel and a steamship beyond. Denomination counters reading '0$10' occupy ornate cartouches to either side of the vignette, while the bank title is split across banner scrolls in the upper corners. The printer's imprint runs along the lower margin. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino's wartime fractional issues for Portuguese Angola came about because of a genuine coin shortage — small denomination copper and bronze coinage simply wasn't reaching the colony in sufficient quantities during the First World War. The seal type classification on this series refers to the overprinted or applied fiscal seal used to validate the notes for circulation, with Type III representing one of several successive authorizations as the emergency dragged on longer than anticipated.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the base notes in London, a long-standing arrangement BNU relied on across multiple colonial territories.