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1000 Reis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Reference(s) | P#32 |
| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the face, with the denomination '1000' in large numerals at left and right margins. A circular red vignette at right bears a sailing ship within a circular inscription for the Lourenço Marques branch. The Portuguese arms appear at upper right alongside the bank title, with the date and place of issue — Lisboa, 1 de Março de 1909 — at lower centre, above three manuscript signatures. |
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| Variants | P#32(1) - signatures: Governador António Teixeira de Sousa & Vice Governador Manuel Carlos de Freitas Alzina P#32(2) - signatures: Governador António Teixeira de Sousa & Vice Governador Luís Diogo da Silva |
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António Teixeira de Sousa, one of the two governors whose signature appears on this note, was a prominent figure in the dying years of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy — he would serve as the last Prime Minister before the October 1910 revolution that abolished the throne entirely. His presence on a colonial banking instrument dated just a year before that rupture gives the note an unintentional timestamp.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates in London for Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the Lisbon-based institution chartered to handle Portuguese overseas territories. The two signature combinations indicate at minimum two distinct issue periods within the 1909 series, both predating the Republic's sweeping reorganization of colonial finance.