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5000 Réis 7th. print - Interim Issue
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Size | 140 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio printing on blue and multicolour underprint, with a portrait vignette of the Marquês de Pombal positioned at left. The plate designation 'Chapa 7' identifies this as the seventh print of the issue. Inscriptions in period typeface are distributed across the face, referencing the issuing authority, denomination, and a date of 30 December 1909. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE PORTUGAL CINCO MIL RÉIS PRATA LISBOA, 30 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1909 O DIRECTOR O GOVERNADOR (Translation: Bank of Portugal Five Thousand Reis Silver Lisbon, December 30, 1909 The Director The Governor) |
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This note belongs to Portugal's transitional moment after the October 1910 republican revolution, when the new government needed circulating currency but lacked time — or perhaps political will — to commission entirely new designs. The 7th print interim issues were produced from existing Banco de Portugal plate work, with republican overprints or modified vignettes replacing monarchist imagery, a stopgap that created a visually hybrid series unlike anything issued before or after.
Bradbury Wilkinson had supplied intaglio work to Banco de Portugal for years, and London printing continued uninterrupted through the political upheaval — the republic changed the face of the currency far more than it changed the supply chain.