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Collection - Coins and Notes - Diário de Notícias #27 2 500 Reis
| Issuer | Banco do Minho |
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| Year | 1887 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown letterpress design with ornate scrollwork border. A central cartouche bears the bank title in bold serif lettering, flanked by serial numbers; a cursive promise-to-pay clause in Portuguese runs across the centre with the denomination in an inset panel, place name, date spaces, and two manuscript signature lines below under the legend OS GERENTES. Side panels carry the denomination in words vertically. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2$500 |
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Banco do Minho was one of Portugal's provincially chartered banks, based in Braga, and authorized to issue notes under the decentralized banking regime that persisted in Portugal until the Banco de Portugal gradually consolidated the right of issue through the late nineteenth century. This 500 Réis note dates from 1887, when that consolidation pressure was already building — the bank's note-issuing privileges would not survive the decade intact.
Printed locally in Braga rather than sent abroad to the major security printers, which was unusual for the period and likely accounts for the relatively modest print quality reported across the series.