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| 表面の説明 | The note is laid out in a predominantly green and black colour scheme with elaborate guilloche borders framing the entire face. The bank title BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO appears across the upper register, with the branch designation O THESOUREIRO DA FILIAL EM LOANDA centred below it. To the right, a circular vignette encloses a steamship at sea, flanked by the Portuguese royal arms and the seal of the bank, while the denomination MIL REIS is set in bold letterpress at centre, the date LISBOA 1 de MARÇO de 1909 appearing along the lower margin above the signature lines for O Gerente and O Governador. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM LOANDA BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO (Translation: Payable in the Luanda Branch, National Overseas Bank) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was a Lisbon-based colonial bank chartered in 1864 specifically to manage currency and credit across Portugal's overseas territories. By 1909, it was issuing notes for multiple colonies simultaneously — the same Bradbury Wilkinson plates were often adapted across different territories with minimal modification, which makes precise attribution of specific P#28 printing runs to a single colony worth scrutinizing against the series prefix and overprint details.
Bradbury Wilkinson had by this date established a strong reputation for intaglio security printing, and their work for BNU was consistent with their broader Portuguese colonial contracts. Whether this particular note circulated in Mozambique, Angola, or another territory changes its monetary history considerably.