5 Escudos

The Banco Nacional Ultramarino was Portugal's designated issuing bank for its overseas territories, and this 1941 series covered Portuguese Guinea specifically. Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement here is consistent with their long relationship with BNU across multiple colonial currency series — the firm handled a significant portion of Portugal's overseas note printing through the mid-twentieth century.

Three signature combinations are recorded for P#83, all pairing a rotating left signatory with António dos Santos Viegas on the right. Viegas's persistence across all three variants suggests he held a fixed administrative post while the countersigning authority changed — the left signatures correspond to different governors or directors of the issuing board during the note's circulation life.