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1 Libra
| Issuer | Banco da Beira |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The back is printed entirely in green intaglio on a plain ground, centred on a large ornate oval vignette composed of intricate guilloche scrollwork and foliate arabesques framed by laurel and oak branches at the top border. A horizontal panel across the centre carries the denomination inscription UMA LIBRA ESTERLINA with OURO below, flanked by pound sterling numeral counters reading £1 at upper and lower centre within the oval. |
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| Variants | P#R6a - large hand signature at left P#R6b - small hand signature at left P#R6c/a - large signature, cancelled P#R6c/b - small signature, cancelled |
| Comments |
Banco da Beira was a short-lived colonial institution operating out of Beira in Mozambique, then Portuguese East Africa. This 1 Libra note from 1919 was issued during an unusual monetary window — the libra was a unit tied to the Portuguese gold standard system, but post-WWI currency pressures were already making such denominations awkward to sustain in colonial circulation.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is unsurprising given their extensive work printing notes for British and British-adjacent colonial territories, but Banco da Beira itself had a brief operational life, making surviving examples genuinely uncommon across the entire P#R6 series.