1000 Reis

Banco Nacional Ultramarino operated as the privileged note-issuing bank for Portugal's overseas territories, and by 1909 this note would have circulated in multiple colonial dependencies under the same or closely related series. Bradbury Wilkinson's engraving work for colonial issuers was extensive during this period — the London firm held contracts across British, Portuguese, and other European colonial banking systems simultaneously, often adapting plate elements between clients.

Pick 7 is among the earlier catalogued BNU issues, and surviving examples in any honest circulated condition are genuinely uncommon.