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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO DEZ CENTAVOS ANGOLA O Governador / O Gerente (Translation: National Overseas Bank / Ten Centavos / Angola / The Governor / The Manager) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette bearing the numeral 10 above the word CENTAVOS in bold relief, surrounded by a beaded guilloche border. The issuer's name runs across the upper margin, and the Portuguese coat of arms appears in a small cartouche at the lower centre. Corner medallions carry the numeral 10, and an elaborate engraved frame of interlocking foliate ornaments fills the remaining field. |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued this note for Portuguese Guinea, one of several small-denomination paper issues produced around 1920 to address a chronic shortage of metallic small change across Portugal's African territories. The shift away from coin for fractional values was a practical response to wartime metal scarcity that outlasted the war itself in the colonial periphery.
Pick 51 is among the scarcer BNU Guinea issues of this period — the low face value meant heavy handling and rapid destruction in circulation.