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1000 Reis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO O THESOUREIRO DA FILIAL EM LOURENÇO MARQUES PAGARÁ Á VISTA AO PORTADOR MIL REIS EM MOEDA CORRENTE VALOR RECEBIDO LISBOA, 1 DE MARÇO DE 1909. |
| Reverse description | A central oval intaglio vignette portrays a seated allegorical female figure gazing toward a square-rigged sailing vessel at sea, rendered in fine line engraving on a dark green guilloche ground. The denomination '1000' appears in large numerals at both the left and right borders, flanked by ornate lathe-work panels. The bank title arcs around the central vignette, with the branch payability inscription across the top margin. |
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António Teixeira de Sousa, one of the two governors whose signature appears on this note, was a prominent figure in the dying years of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy — he would serve as the last Prime Minister before the October 1910 revolution that abolished the throne entirely. His presence on a colonial banking instrument dated just a year before that rupture gives the note an unintentional timestamp.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates in London for Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the Lisbon-based institution chartered to handle Portuguese overseas territories. The two signature combinations indicate at minimum two distinct issue periods within the 1909 series, both predating the Republic's sweeping reorganization of colonial finance.