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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 500 Escudos |
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| Obverse description | Lilac tones on multicolour guilloche underprint. Portrait of António Ennes at left, steamship vignette seal at right. Issuer name and denomination inscriptions frame the central composition. |
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| Signature(s) | 29.11.1945 - António Pedroso Pimenta and António dos Santos Viegas 29.11.1945 - António Augusto Correia de Aguiar and António dos Santos Viegas |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino held an unusual position among Portuguese colonial institutions — a private bank granted sovereign note-issuing rights across multiple territories, from Mozambique to Macau. By 1945, the bank's 500 Escudo denomination was among the highest-value instruments in circulation, and the Bradbury Wilkinson engraving reflects that: the London firm was rarely commissioned for low-prestige work.
Two distinct signature combinations share the same date of 29 November 1945, differing only in the first signatory — Pimenta versus Correia de Aguiar. This likely reflects a transition in board membership rather than two separate printings, with sheets signed across an administrative changeover.