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| 正面描述 | The central vignette carries a bust portrait of King Carlos I at centre, framed by a decorative guilloche border. The issuer inscription 'JUNTA DA FAZENDA PUBLICA' and the denomination '20 RUPIAS' are rendered in letterpress, with serial numbers positioned at upper left and upper right. |
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| 正面铭文 | Junta da Fazenda Publica 20 RUPIAS |
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The Junta da Fazenda Pública — the Public Treasury Board — issued notes for Portuguese India from Goa, functioning as a colonial fiscal authority rather than a conventional bank of issue. By 1882, paper currency in this territory had a troubled reputation; earlier emissions had suffered from counterfeiting and irregular redemption, and public confidence in locally issued notes remained fragile throughout the nineteenth century.
The Pick A3 designation signals an early and scarce type. Surviving examples are genuinely rare, partly because the Junta's emissions were short-lived and partly because Portuguese Indian notes of this period were rarely preserved — they circulated hard in a humid coastal climate that was unkind to paper.