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Collection - Coins and Notes - Diário de Notícias #33 10 000 Reis
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AÇORES 10 000 REIS BANCO DE PORTUGAL DEZ MIL REIS MOEDA INSULANA OURO Pagavel nas Agencias nos Açores Lisboa 30 de Janeiro de 1905 O DIRECTOR O GOVERNADOR AÇORES F 14922 |
| Reverse description | Brown guilloche design with a circular portrait vignette of Infante D. Henrique (Prince Henry the Navigator) at upper left, inscribed below the portrait. Ornate cartouches at left and right bear the numeral 10, with a crowned Portuguese royal arms at lower centre. AÇORES overprint repeated at all four corners. |
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By 1905, Banco de Portugal had been printing its own notes at the Estamparia do Banco de Portugal for some years — an unusual degree of vertical integration for a European central bank of that period, most of which still contracted major security printers abroad. The 10,000 Réis denomination sat at the high end of everyday commerce; at contemporary exchange rates, it represented serious purchasing power, and notes of this value saw far more counting-house and commercial use than retail circulation.
The "Diário de Notícias" designation in the series name reflects a promotional collecting scheme run by that Lisbon newspaper — a detail that has nothing to do with the note's original issue context and everything to do with how these pieces re-entered public hands a century later.