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50 Rupias
| 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 description | The obverse is printed in red and multicolour, centred around a portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque — Portuguese viceroy and conqueror of Goa — positioned at right, while the bank's circular seal incorporating a steamship vignette occupies the upper left. Denomination numeral 50 appears in each of the four corners set within ornamental guilloche panels. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red, the reverse centres on a vignette of a female allegorical figure at left, her gaze directed toward sailing ships rendered at centre, evoking Portugal's maritime legacy. The Portuguese royal arms appear within a decorative cartouche at upper right. |
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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.