Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
|---|---|
| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Pataca (1894-1959) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | the Banco Nacional Ultramarino emblem visible in the paper when held to light. |
| Variants | P#18a(1) - signatures: Francisco José Vieira Machado & António dos Santos Viegas P#18a(2) - signatures: Artur Meneses Correia de Sá & António dos Santos Viegas |
| Comments |
Banco Nacional Ultramarino held the note-issuing concession for Portuguese Macau throughout the colonial period, and this 1945 issue appeared while the territory was still navigating the extraordinary pressures of the Second World War. Macau remained technically neutral under Portuguese administration, but the Japanese occupation of surrounding Guangdong and Hong Kong made that neutrality deeply precarious — the territory was flooded with refugees and its economy strained well beyond normal limits.
Waterlow & Sons printed the series in London, though wartime logistics made delivery uncertain. The two signature combinations reflect successive administrations of the issuing bank rather than separate print runs.