100 Escudos 4th. print

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.