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50 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Size | 164 x 84 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGAVEL NA COLONIA DE MOCAMBIQUE 50 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson produced this note for Portugal's colonial banking arm at a moment when Angola — the note's territory of issue — was being drawn more tightly into Lisbon's economic orbit. The Banco Nacional Ultramarino held the monopoly of issue across Portuguese Africa, and these mid-1940s denominations were part of a postwar reorientation of colonial currency infrastructure away from the more improvised wartime arrangements.
P#96A is distinguished from the otherwise similar P#96 by its signature combination — a detail that matters considerably for attribution and valuation, as the two varieties are frequently conflated in less careful listings.