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10 Rupias
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO INDIA PORTUGUESA DECRETO Nº 17.154 DEZ RUPIAS LISBOA, 29 de NOVEMBRO de 1945. (Translation: National Bank Overseas Portuguese India Decree no. 17,154 Ten Rupias Lisbon, 29 November 1945.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO PAGAVEL NA INDIA PORTUGUESA (Translation: National Bank Overseas Payable in Portuguese India) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued this note for Portuguese India — Goa, Daman, and Diu — where the rupia, not the escudo, remained the unit of account well into the twentieth century. The 1945 date places it squarely in wartime production, when Bradbury Wilkinson continued supplying colonial currency from London despite the broader disruptions to shipping and trade that made distribution genuinely uncertain.
Portuguese India was one of the few colonial territories where BNU maintained a distinct currency identity separate from mainland monetary policy, a situation that persisted until the Indian annexation in 1961 rendered the entire series obsolete overnight.