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500 Escudos Banco de Moçambique overprint
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Size | 170 × 90 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in purple and lilac on a fine guilloche background, centres on a large intaglio vignette of the Mozambique coat of arms — a crowned Portuguese shield with armillary sphere and waves, supported by two dolphins — with the inscription MOÇAMBIQUE below. To the left, the circular BNU seal bears an image of a sailing ship above the legend LISBOA-1864. The denomination numeral 500 appears in each corner, and the issuer name BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO runs across the lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | PAGÁVEL NA PROVÍNCIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE 500 500 500 BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 500 MOÇAMBIQUE BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Cº Lº NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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When Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal in June 1975, the new Banco de Moçambique inherited stocks of unissued Banco Nacional Ultramarino notes and simply overprinted them for immediate circulation rather than commissioning entirely new designs. The 1976 overprint series was a practical stopgap — the colonial-era plates were already at Bradbury Wilkinson, and the logistical cost of a full new issue was not justifiable in the immediate post-independence period.
Bradbury Wilkinson applied the Banco de Moçambique overprint to BNU stock at their New Malden facility. The underlying note remained structurally unchanged — a colonial instrument redeployed under a new issuing authority by the straightforward mechanical addition of a new bank name.