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10 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 160 × 106 mm |
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| Reverse description | Brown on multicolour guilloche underprint. A central intaglio vignette within a circular frame, inscribed with the bank name, presents a seated allegorical female figure holding a sailing ship model, symbolising maritime commerce. The denomination numeral "10" appears in large figures at both left and right, and the overprint "PAGÁVEL NAS DEPENDÊNCIAS DA PROVÍNCIA DE CABO VERDE" with "CABO VERDE" in red runs across the top of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | PAGÁVEL NAS DEPENDENCIAS DA PROVINCIA DE CABO VERDE BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 10 (Translation: Payable at the premises of the Province of Cape Verde National Overseas Bank 10) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was chartered specifically to serve Portugal's overseas territories, and by 1921 its operations spanned Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Timor, and Portuguese India simultaneously — this note circulated within that network rather than in metropolitan Portugal, where it had no legal tender status. The Pick 35 belongs to the Mozambique issue of the series.
Bradbury, Wilkinson printed the note at their New Malden works. The firm was among the most technically accomplished intaglio security printers of the period, and their work for colonial currency clients was extensive through the interwar decades.