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5 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO DECRETO No. 17.154 CABO VERDE COLÓNIA PORTUGUESA CINCO ESCUDOS LISBOA, 16 de NOVEMBRO de 1945. BARTOLOMEU DIAS (Translation: National Bank Overseas Decree no. 17,154 Cape Verde Portuguese Colony Five Escudos Lisbon, November 16, 1945.) |
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| Reverse lettering | PAGÁVEL NA COLÓNIA DE CABO VERDE BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO (Translation: Payable in Colony of Cape Verde National Bank Overseas) |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied an unusual position in Portuguese imperial finance — a private institution granted monopoly rights to issue currency across multiple overseas territories, meaning a single printer's contract with Bradbury Wilkinson could produce near-identical note designs simultaneously destined for Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, and other possessions, differentiated only by overprint or small textual variations. This particular series required the issuer to specify the colony in the print run itself, rather than relying on post-press modification.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was producing currency for dozens of colonial administrations through the 1940s, and quality control on wartime and immediate postwar paper stock was notoriously variable across the industry. Notes from this 1945 run should be examined for toning along fold lines, which is a known characteristic of the paper batch rather than mishandling.