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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1959 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown and pink on a multicolour guilloche underprint, the reverse presents at left a circular vignette of a sailing vessel enclosed within an ornate lathe-work frame bearing the legend BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO / LISBOA-1864. At centre, the Portuguese colonial arms are set beneath a crown. The denomination QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS is inscribed in bold letterpress across the lower centre, with numeral 500 counters at lower left and right. The printer's imprint appears in small text along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO LISBOA-1864 500 QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS BRADBURY WILKINSON & C.ª LTD GRAVADORES, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, INGLATERRA |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied an unusual position among colonial banks — it held the monopoly on note issue not for a single territory but for most of Portuguese overseas possessions simultaneously, rotating designs and overprints across Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, São Tomé, and others from a shared London-printed stock. This P-25 belongs to the Mozambique series, where Bradbury Wilkinson supplied the bulk of high-denomination paper through the 1950s.
At 500 Escudos, this was a substantial sum in Mozambican daily commerce in 1959 — not a note that changed hands at a market stall.