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20 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 20 Escudos |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGAVEL NA COLONIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE 20 ESCUDOS |
| Reverse description | Blue and green on multicolour underprint. Central oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure with a sailing ship in the background, flanked by large denomination numerals '20' on either side. Guilloche rosette patterns fill the lateral margins; printer's imprint 'BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO LTD NEW MALDEN SURREY ENGLAND' appears at lower centre. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this wartime-era note for the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the colonial note-issuing institution that served Portugal's overseas territories. The specific territory this note was intended for isn't declared in the face data alone — BNU issued across multiple colonies simultaneously, and the Pick 96 reference places this within the Guinea-Português series, a territory where Portuguese colonial currency policy remained unchanged even as Europe rebuilt after the war.
Watermark-only security reflects BNU's consistent conservatism in specification. No serial prefix coding, no overprint modifications — just Bradbury Wilkinson's reliable intaglio work on cotton stock.