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10 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Printer | Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio print on paper. Portrait of the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias at right, the bank's circular seal at left, and the Portuguese Coat of Arms at lower centre. The design is framed by fine guilloche underprint work, with the issuing authority and decree details inscribed across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and green intaglio and letterpress print. A central allegorical vignette portrays a seated female figure gazing toward a harbour scene with sailing vessels and a steamship at centre; two large denomination numeral counters enclosed in elaborate guilloche rosettes flank the vignette at left and right. Scrolling ribbon banners carry the bank name across the upper portion of the note, with the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson produced this note for Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the Lisbon-based institution that held a monopoly on currency issuance across Portugal's overseas territories throughout the colonial period. The specific territory of issue isn't recorded in standard references for P#42 — BNU operated across Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Portuguese Guinea, and Timor, and used near-identical series architecture across multiple colonies simultaneously, which creates persistent cataloging ambiguity for notes where the destination territory isn't overprinted or otherwise differentiated.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's intaglio work for BNU in the 1940s was technically accomplished but the notes were prone to edge splitting along the short dimension under tropical humidity conditions.