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100 Rupias

Issuer Banco Nacional Ultramarino
Year 1945
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Printer Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990)
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Obverse description Purple and multicolour note printed with an intaglio portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque at right and the bank seal vignette bearing a steamship motif at upper left. Guilloche underprint frames the central field, with the numeral 100 repeated at all four corners. The lower register carries the dated decree text and denomination legend in letterpress.
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Reverse description Purple and red bicolour composition centred on a vignette of a seated allegorical female figure at left, with sailing ships in the middle ground; the Portuguese coat of arms appears at upper right. Dense guilloche patterning fills the background field throughout. The denomination and issuer legends are set within the framing borders of the composition.
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Protection description Portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque watermarked within the paper.
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