500 Escudos

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Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse is plain and largely unprinted, showing the blank verso of the cheque document with show-through of text and a circular embossed or watermark seal visible at lower left, consistent with standard cheque stock paper of the period.
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Descrizione della protezione	Circular embossed seal visible on the reverse of the cheque document
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Commenti	Banco Nacional Ultramarino's 500 Escudos of 1974 arrives at an awkward historical moment: the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 had already ended Estado Novo rule in Lisbon, and Portuguese Angola — one of the primary territories this note served — was in the final stretch of a colonial relationship that would formally dissolve with independence in November 1975. Notes issued in this period circulated in a colony that was already, politically speaking, dissolving under them. Bradbury, Wilkinson produced clean, technically accomplished work for colonial issuers throughout the mid-twentieth century. The embossed seal is the sole listed security feature — modest by the standards of the denomination, though consistent with BNU's practice across the series.