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Collection - Coins and Notes - Diário de Notícias #30 10 000 Reis
| Issuer | Banco de Guimarães |
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| Year | 1891 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
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| Obverse description | Text-based note with ornate engraved border and guilloche underprint in dark ink. Central body carries a letterpress promise-to-pay clause in script reading that the Gerência do Banco de Guimarães will pay the bearer on demand, with the denomination numeral 10$000 in bold intaglio. Lower left carries a dark cartouche with '10 MIL REIS'; serial numbers appear at upper left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | DEZ MIL REIS Nº 00619 A Gerencia do BANCO DE GUIMARÃES se obriga a pagar à vista, ao Portador desta Nota DEZ MIL REIS 10$000 em moeda de prata ou ouro, valor recebido. Guimarães 1 de Junho de 1891 A GERENCIA 10 MIL REIS BANCO DE GUIMARÃES |
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The Banco de Guimarães was one of several provincial Portuguese banks authorized to issue notes in the nineteenth century, operating under a concession model that left regional institutions genuinely exposed when the financial crisis of 1891 hit Portugal hard. That crisis — triggered in part by Brazil's own monetary turmoil and the collapse of British credit to Iberian markets — forced several of these smaller banks to suspend payments. Whether the Banco de Guimarães survived it intact is the operative question for any note dated to that year.
The "Diário de Notícias" collection designation suggests this was distributed as part of a newspaper-issued numismatic series, meaning this specific example may never have circulated at all.