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8 Tangas without counterfoil

Emittent Banco Nacional Ultramarino
Jahr 1917
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Druckerei Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Green and red bicolour note with the red seal of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino at centre. The face carries intricate embroidered-style guilloche borders framing the text block. Inscriptions identify the issuing branch in Nova Goa and the denomination in full.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung Dark-green intaglio print on pink underprint, with a central vignette of a maiden gazing towards sailing ships. The numeral of value appears on both lateral panels within elaborate embroidered guilloche cartouches.
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The tanga was a Portuguese colonial monetary unit equal to one-sixteenth of a rupia, making this an odd mid-denomination note likely issued to address acute small-change shortages that plagued Goa's commercial economy during the First World War, when silver coin exports drained local circulation. Bradbury Wilkinson printed it in London — standard practice for Portuguese colonial paper throughout this period.

The "without counterfoil" distinction in the Pick reference indicates a later or separate print run from the counterfoil-attached version (P#20), though both circulated in the same colony. Goa would not see a proper monetary reform until the Estado Novo era consolidations of the 1930s.