100 Escudos

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.