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500 Rupias
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 500 Rupias |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO NOVA GOA QUINHENTAS RUPIAS LISBOA, 1deJANEIROde1924 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a sailing ship, with the issuer name divided across the note as BANCO NACIONAL at top and ULTRAMARINO at bottom, framing the central composition. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino served as the privileged issuing bank for Portuguese overseas territories, and by 1924 this note would have circulated in Portuguese India — the small collection of enclaves including Goa, Daman, and Diu that remained under Lisbon's administration decades longer than any other European colonial possession in the subcontinent. Thomas De La Rue's involvement is expected for BNU issues of this period; the London firm handled much of the colonial Portuguese printing through the early twentieth century.
Five hundred rupias represented serious money in circulation — a denomination aimed at merchant transactions rather than daily wages.