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50 Rupias
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO INDIA PORTUGUESA DECRETO Nº 17.154 CINQUENTA RUPIAS LISBOA, 29 de NOVEMBRO de 1945. (Translation: National Bank Overseas Portuguese India Decree no. 17,154 Fifty Rupees Lisbon, November 29, 1945.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGAVEL NA INDIA PORTUGUESA (Translation: National Bank Overseas Payable in Portuguese India) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued this note for Portuguese India — a colonial territory that would remain under Lisbon's administration until the Indian Army's military action of December 1961 forcibly ended four and a half centuries of Portuguese presence on the subcontinent. By that point, BNU's Indian issues had long ceased, and outstanding notes became effectively worthless outside the territory almost overnight.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on the P#38 series is competent without being remarkable. The 1945 date places production late in wartime, when shipping security between London and Goa would still have been a genuine logistical concern.