500 Rupias

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.