Catalog
500 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Banco Commercial e Agrícola |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Currency | Real (1747-1942) |
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| Obverse description | Black on white paper with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire note. The central vignette presents a classical monument or column set within a landscape with flanking figures, with the denomination numeral "500" repeated in each corner panel. The bank title appears in ornate script lettering across the upper register, with serial number, value panels, and a Portuguese promise-to-pay legend occupying the central field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco Commercial e Agricola 1a Serie QUINHENTOS MIL REIS OS DIRECTORES Rs 500$000 |
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The Banco Commercial e Agrícola was a Portuguese colonial institution operating in what is now Angola and Mozambique, though notes of this reference are associated with Portuguese Guinea — one of the more obscure corners of the mid-nineteenth-century Lusophone issuing world. At this date, private bank-issued paper circulated alongside Crown-authorized instruments, and the 500 Réis denomination sat at a level practical for local mercantile transactions rather than large colonial transfers.
Surviving examples from this 1858 issue are rare enough that auction appearances are infrequent. The catalog record remains thin.