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50 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 50 Escudos |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO MOÇAMBIQUE COLONIA PORTUGUESA CINCOENTA ESCUDOS DECRETO Nº 17.154 LISBOA, 11 DE JANEIRO DE 1938 O ADMINISTRADOR O PRESIDENTE DO CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO |
| Reverse description | Central oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure, printed in green intaglio, flanked by elaborate guilloche scrollwork filling the side panels with the denomination numeral 50 repeated at lower left and right. The upper register carries the inscription PAGAVEL NA COLONIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE above the bold two-part legend BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO across the full width of the note. |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino, though headquartered in Lisbon, functioned as the currency-issuing authority for Portugal's overseas territories rather than for the metropole itself. This 1938 series was produced by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works, a firm whose intaglio printing was among the most technically accomplished available to colonial issuers in the interwar period.
Three signature combinations are recorded for P#75 — a relatively high number for a single date issue — suggesting extended use of the printed stock across multiple board compositions over several years. The pairing of different senior signatories with the constant António dos Santos Viegas implies he held a durable administrative post while the governing directorate turned over around him.