50 Rupias

Descrizione del dritto	Blue on brown underprint. A central vignette of an elephant is flanked by language panels on both sides; a steamship vignette appears at lower left and the Portuguese coat of arms at lower center. The date is positioned at upper left, the boxed serial number at upper right and lower left, with a signature panel along the bottom margin.
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Legenda del rovescio	BANCO NACIONAL 50 ULTRAMARINO (Translation: National Bank Overseas 50)
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Commenti	Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued this note for Portuguese India — the Estado da India territory centered on Goa, Daman, and Diu — where the Rupia served as the distinct local currency rather than the metropolitan Escudo. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, as they did for most Portuguese colonial issues of this period, and the 1938 date places it squarely in the Salazar-era rationalisation of Portuguese overseas banking administration. Pick 34 is notably scarcer than the higher-denomination notes of the same series, likely because the 50 Rupias circulated harder and longer in daily trade.