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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO DECRETO No. 17.154 S. TOMÉ e PRÍNCIPE COLÔNIA PORTUGUESA CEM ESCUDOS LISBOA, 12 de AGOSTO de 1946. (Translation: National Bank Overseas Decree no. 17,154 St. Thomas and Prince Portuguese Colony Hundred Escudos Lisbon, August 12, 1946.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGÁVEL NA COLÓNIA DE S. TOMÉ E PRINCIPE BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Lto. GRAVADORES, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, INGLATERRA (Translation: National Bank Overseas Payable in Colony of St. Thomas and Prince Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co Ltd Engravers, New Malden, Surrey, England) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied a peculiar institutional position — it was a Lisbon-based private bank granted monopoly rights to issue currency across Portugal's overseas territories, a function it held for decades without being a central bank in any formal sense. This 1946 issue would have circulated in one of those colonial territories, though the specific destination is not marked on the note itself in a way that distinguishes it from other BNU series of the period.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was among the most technically capable security printers of the mid-twentieth century, supplying colonial currency to multiple European powers simultaneously — a commercial arrangement that sometimes meant plate designs migrated between issuers with only cosmetic alterations.