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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino - S. Tiago |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | P#12A |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 0$10 0$10 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Cª Eª GRAVADORES LONDRES |
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| Protection description | SPECIMEN perforation punch through the note body, as typical for trial or specimen issues of this series. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino's Cape Verde branch issues are among the more obscure Portuguese colonial paper of the early twentieth century, and the 1914 S. Tiago fractional notes occupy a particularly narrow window. The BNU had operated in the archipelago since 1865, but low-denomination emergency fractionals like this one typically emerged in response to coin shortages — a chronic problem in the islands, where metallic currency drained steadily toward trade deficits and hoarding.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced high-quality security printing for colonial issuers across the British and Portuguese empires alike. The perforation security feature is the sole anti-counterfeiting measure noted for this type — modest even by 1914 standards.