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100 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 100 Escudos |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco Nacional Ultramarino 100$00 S. Tomé, 31 de Março de 1947. Pague contra este original de cheque (não o tendo feito pelo duplicado) á ordem de portador a quantia de CEM ESCUDOS. Ao Banco Nacional Ultramarino (Translation: National Bank Overseas 100$00 S. Tomé, March 31, 1947. Pay against this original check (not having made it for the duplicate) to bearer order the amount of Hundred Escudos. To National Bank Overseas) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper with no printed design. A circular embossed dry seal is present at lower left, with faint guilloche underprint elements discernible through the paper in the central area. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was the privileged bank of issue for Portugal's overseas territories, and by 1947 was producing notes for multiple colonies simultaneously — this 100 Escudos was specific to Angola. Waterlow & Sons had a long relationship with BNU going back decades, handling much of the colonial series production through the interwar and postwar periods.
Pick 35A is distinguished from the later 35B by its signature combination. The distinction matters more than it might appear: BNU directorial appointments in this period tracked closely with Lisbon's political winds under the Estado Novo, and signature variants are sometimes the only documentary evidence of when a specific authorization was in force.