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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of João Teixeira Pinto is positioned at left, with the bank seal at right and the Portuguese Coat of Arms at lower centre. The date and decree number appear within the face design, framed by guilloche patterning. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO DECRETO Nº 17.154 GUINÉ PORTUGUESA CEM ESCUDOS LISBOA, 14 de SETEMBRO de 1937. (Translation: National Overseas Bank Decree No. 17,154 Portuguese Guinea One Hundred Escudos Lisbon, 14 September 1937.) |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied an unusual position in Portuguese colonial finance — it held note-issuing authority not for Portugal itself but for its overseas territories, a mandate it exercised across multiple colonies simultaneously with distinct series for each. This particular issue predates the significant redesigns that followed World War II, placing it in a period when the bank's relationship with Lisbon was being quietly renegotiated amid broader Salazarist economic centralization.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work from this period is technically accomplished. The London firm produced colonial currency for dozens of issuing authorities through the mid-twentieth century, and their printing quality is generally consistent — which makes attribution errors in the catalog rare but not impossible for this series.