Catalog
2500 Reis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Currency | Real (1865-1914) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO O THESOUREIRO DA FILIAL EM S. THIAGO PAGARÁ Á VISTA AO PORTADOR DOIS MIL E QUINHENTOS REIS EM MOEDA CORRENTE VALOR RECEBIDO LISBOA. 1 de MARÇO de 1909. (Translation: National Bank Overseas The Treasurer of the Agency of St. Thiago Pay in cash by carrier Two Thousand and Five Hundred Reis in currency Amount received Lisbon, March 1st, 1909.) |
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| Reverse lettering | PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM S. THIAGO BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO (Translation: Payable in agency of St. Thiago National Bank Overseas) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued notes across a sprawling network of Portuguese overseas territories, and distinguishing which colony a given note was intended for requires careful attention to the overprint or place-of-payment text — the base designs were frequently shared across multiple branches. This 1909 2500 Reis note from Bradbury Wilkinson falls into that category of centrally produced blanks finished for specific territorial use.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work of this period is generally reliable and technically consistent, though the firm was not yet at the peak of its security printing reputation it would later build through the interwar decades.