Catalog
500 Rupias
| Issuer | Junta da Fazenda Pública do Estado da Índia Portuguesa |
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| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into a detachable counterfoil on the left and the main body on the right. The counterfoil bears the issuer's name 'JUNTA DA FAZENDA' and denomination '500 RUPIAS' in vertical orientation, with the date 'Nova Goa, 7 de Nov. de 1882' at the foot. The main body carries a central guilloche oval vignette with a bust portrait of King Carlos I, flanked by the denomination '500 RUPIAS' repeated on either side within decorative letterpress panels, surmounted by the full issuer title 'JUNTA DA FAZENDA PUBLICA DO ESTADO DA INDIA PORTUGUESA' and a manuscript promise-to-pay text in Portuguese with the date and place of issue below. |
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| Obverse lettering | JUNTA DA FAZENDA PUBLICA DO ESTADO DA INDIA PORTUGUESA 500 RUPIAS QUINHENTAS RUPIAS Nova Goa 7 de Nov.de 1882 O Thesoureiro da Junta da Fazenda pagará à vista ao portador a quantia de quinhentas rupias em moeda de prata |
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The Junta da Fazenda Pública — the public treasury board of Portuguese India — issued notes locally in Nova Goa rather than relying on Lisbon-printed stock, an arrangement that reflected the colony's fiscal semi-autonomy and the practical difficulties of transporting currency across oceanic distances in the nineteenth century. At 500 Rupias, this was a high-denomination instrument, almost certainly used in wholesale trade and government transactions rather than retail circulation.
The P#ANL reference indicates the note has not yet been formally catalogued in Pick, which itself suggests extreme rarity or incomplete documentation — surviving examples from this Junta series are almost entirely absent from the auction record.