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100 Rupias

Issuer Junta da Fazenda Pública do Estado da India Portugueza
Year 1882
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Obverse description The counterfoil at left carries the issuer's name in three lines — JUNTA DA FAZENDA / RUPIAS 100 — with the place and date Nova Goa, 6 de Nov.º de 1882 below. The main body of the note bears a central oval vignette with a bust portrait of King Carlos I set against a dark background, flanked on either side by the denomination 100 RUPIAS in bold letterpress within ornate frames. The upper panel carries the full issuer title JUNTA DA FAZENDA PUBLICA DO ESTADO DA INDIA PORTUGUEZA, with denomination also expressed in Devanagari and Konkani script; a manuscript promise-to-pay text in Portuguese runs across the lower portion above the date line.
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Reverse description Uniface note; reverse is blank.
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The Junta da Fazenda Pública — the public treasury board of Portuguese India — issued notes directly rather than through a chartered bank, an arrangement that persisted in Goa long after metropolitan Portugal had moved toward centralized banking institutions. This 100 Rupias note from 1882 predates the Banco Nacional Ultramarino's eventual dominance of Goan paper currency by years, placing it in a brief and administratively awkward window of local treasury issue.

Printed in Nova Goa rather than Lisbon, the production quality reflects colonial workshop limitations. The "ANL" Pick reference signals the note remains unconfirmed in the standard catalogue — surviving examples are rare enough that full documentation has never been completed.

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