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100 Escudos 4th. print
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1928-1930 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE PORTUGAL CEM ESCUDOS OURO Lisboa 12 de Agosto de 1930 (Translation: Bank of Portugal Hundred Escudos Gold Lisbon, August 12, 1930) |
| Reverse description | Red-brown intaglio on pale underprint, with a large central pastoral vignette of a horse-drawn cart laden with hay, figures standing nearby, and a panoramic townscape with church spires and buildings in the background. At right, an oval medallion bears the bank arms with an allegorical seated female figure and the numeral "100" above and below. Floral and foliate guilloche borders frame the design on all sides. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this series for Banco de Portugal during a politically volatile stretch — the First Portuguese Republic had collapsed in the 1926 military coup, and these notes circulated under the early Ditadura Nacional before Salazar consolidated control of the Finance Ministry in 1928. The timing matters: monetary policy was in active transition, and this 100 Escudos issue was part of the effort to stabilize a currency that had been badly damaged by wartime borrowing and postwar inflation.
The fourth printing distinction within P#140 is a collector-level detail; variations across the print runs are subtle enough that misattribution between states is common in less careful cataloguing.