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| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1904-1910 |
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| Currency | Real (decimalized, 1835-1910) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA BANCO DE PORTUGAL 500 QUINHENTOS RÉIS PRATA Lisboa 27 de Dezembro de 1904 O DIRECTOR O GOVERNADOR 500 ESTAMPARIA DO BANCO DE PORTUGAL (Translation: Republic Bank of Portugal Five Hundred Reis Silver Lisbon, December 27, 1904 The Director The Governor Bank of Portugal Printer) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown. An intaglio vignette at the right depicts the head of an allegorical female figure wearing a laurel wreath and a winged helmet, rendered in fine line engraving. A large guilloche numeral '500' occupies the centre-left field, enclosed within an ornate cartouche, with the denomination repeated in the four corners and the issuer's name across the top. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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