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Collection - Coins and Notes - Diário de Notícias #65 5000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 140 x 88 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE PORTUGAL Ch.1 5000 CINCO MIL ESCUDOS OURO SPECIMEN |
| Reverse description | Violet and purple intaglio composition centred on an ornate Manueline-style arch vignette enclosing an allegorical scene with figures and a luminous landscape beyond. Flanking allegorical figures occupy the lower corners, with two putti at the arch apex. Denomination numerals appear in oval cartouches at lower left and right, with SPECIMEN overprint visible at right margin. |
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The 5000 Escudos was the highest denomination in Portuguese circulation during the early 1940s — a note that most ordinary people would never have handled. At a time when Portugal remained officially neutral but economically entangled with both Allied and Axis trade networks, large-denomination escudo notes circulated heavily among the commercial and banking classes managing wartime commodity flows, particularly wolfram, in which Portugal held a near-monopoly position that made it briefly indispensable to both sides.
Printed domestically by the Banco de Portugal's own press facilities in Lisbon, the P#160 series is among the last of the pre-postwar high-value issues before the denomination structure was revised in the late 1940s.