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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 100 Escudos |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the ornate entrance gateway to Fort São Sebastião at centre, rendered in intaglio in rose-red. The circular bank seal appears at left, with denomination numerals "100" repeated in each corner within guilloche panels. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGAVEL EM MOÇAMBIQUE CEM ESCUDOS |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino served as the privileged issuing bank for Portugal's overseas territories, and this 1958 note was specifically issued for Angola — then still a colonial province rather than a dependent territory in any administrative sense Portugal was willing to acknowledge publicly. Six signatures is an unusually high number for a note of this denomination, reflecting the BNU's cumbersome governance structure, which required sign-off from both Lisbon board members and colonial administration figures.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement kept production quality consistent across the BNU's mid-century colonial series, though P#107 is not among the rarer issues from this printer's Angola work.