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1000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1929 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown intaglio and carries the inscriptions PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM and LOURENCO MARQUES in panels at the top. The Portuguese arms appear as a central circular vignette within an elaborate guilloche frame, flanked by symmetrical decorative columns. Bold black letterpress overprints of the denomination 1000 appear at left and right, with MIL ESCUDOS and a further overprint reading VINTE LIBRAS ESTERLINAS across the lower portion. |
| Reverse lettering | PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM LOURENÇO MARQUES MIL ESCUDOS VINTE LIBRAS ESTERLINAS 1000 |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied a peculiar position in Portuguese colonial finance — it was a private institution holding a state concession, issuing currency across multiple territories simultaneously, from Mozambique to Timor. This 1000 Escudos note was issued for Portuguese Guinea, one of the smaller and economically thinner of those territories, which makes high-denomination survivor pieces comparatively rare relative to the Angola or Mozambique equivalents from the same period.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced fine-line intaglio work of consistently high quality for colonial issuers throughout the interwar decades. The 1929 date places this firmly in the period before the Estado Novo consolidated Lisbon's grip on colonial monetary policy.