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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino - S. Tiago |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO CINCO 5 CENTAVOS S. TIAGO CINCO CENTAVOS MOEDA CORRENTE No 0.385.888 LISBOA, 5 de Novembro de 1914. O VICE-GOVERNADOR O GOVERNADOR BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO COLÓNIAS COMMERCIO E AGRICULTURA |
| Reverse description | Printed in green intaglio, the reverse centres on a large oval vignette of a seated female allegorical figure with a sailing ship in the background, evoking commerce and navigation. Flanking the central vignette are two circular guilloche rosettes each bearing the denomination '0$05' in bold numerals. The bank name 'BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO' is divided across two ribbon banners at the upper left and upper right corners, with elaborate foliate and scroll ornaments filling the remaining field. The printer's imprint 'BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Lts GRAVADORES LONDRES' appears at the bottom margin. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino operated as the official note-issuing authority for Portuguese colonial territories, and S. Tiago — the largest of the Cape Verde islands — received its own distinct issue rather than a unified colonial series. The 1914 date places this note in the early years of the Portuguese First Republic, a period of administrative turbulence that complicated colonial financial management considerably.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced clean, technically reliable work for numerous colonial issuers of this period. At 5 centavos, this is the lowest denomination of the series — small-change notes in colonial contexts typically suffered far higher attrition rates than higher values, making survivors proportionally scarce.