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2.50 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 2.5 Escudos |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Francisco de Oliveira Chamico at left, with the bank seal at right and arms at bottom centre. The face bears the issuing bank name and denomination inscriptions within a structured border arrangement typical of Bradbury Wilkinson intaglio work. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a seated female allegorical figure with sailing ships in the background, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border with the denomination numeral 2$50 repeated at left and right. The legend arcs along the upper portion of the central oval, with the printer's imprint at the lower margin. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note for the Banco Nacional Ultramarino at a moment when Portugal's colonial banking network was under considerable strain — wartime shipping disruptions made physical distribution of currency to overseas territories genuinely difficult, and notes printed in London for Portuguese colonial use sometimes sat in storage far longer than intended before reaching circulation.
Four separate signature combinations are recorded for P#82, all pairing a rotating senior signatory with the fixed António dos Santos Viegas — suggesting Viegas held a stable administrative role across multiple years of the issue while the countersigning authority changed hands more than once.