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1000 Réis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO O THESOUREIRO DA FILIAL EM LOANDA pagará á Vista ao Portador MIL REIS EM MOEDA CORRENTE VALOR RECEBIDO (Translation: National Overseas Bank, The Branch Treasurer in Luanda, Will pay the holder on sight one thousand réis in current currency) |
| Reverse description | Monochrome green intaglio print centred on a large oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure with a sailing ship in the background, enclosed within a circular legend band. Elaborate guilloche rosettes occupy the left and right panels, with the denomination '1000' repeated vertically on both outer edges. The payability inscription appears in a rectangular panel at the top of the note. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was the Portuguese colonial bank of issue, and by 1909 it was circulating notes across multiple territories simultaneously — Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Portuguese India, and others — with the same plates sometimes serving more than one colony depending on overprint or place-of-payment designation. Pick 27 falls within the Mozambique-issued series, though BNU's administrative practice of recycling plate designs across territories can create attribution ambiguity in poorly documented examples.
Bradbury Wilkinson had been BNU's preferred security printer for decades, a relationship that persisted well into the twentieth century. Their intaglio work for colonial issuers was consistently fine — though what makes or breaks a P27 in practice is usually the manuscript date and signature combination, both completed by hand at the time of issue.