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1000 Reis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO O THESOUREIRO DA FILIAL EM S. THIAGO PAGARÁ Á VISTA AO PORTADOR MIL RÉIS EM MOEDA CORRENTE VALOR RECEBIDO LISBOA. 1 de MARÇO de 1909. (Translation: National Overseas Bank. The Treasurer of the Agency of St. Thiago will pay on demand to the bearer One Thousand Réis in current currency. Value received. Lisbon, 1st March 1909.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green intaglio over a yellow-green guilloche underprint, centred on a large oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure gazing toward a sailing ship at sea, enclosed within a circular band bearing the bank name "BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO." The denomination "1000" appears in bold yellow-tinted numerals on both flanks, framed by elaborate lathe-work corner ornaments. The payability inscription is set in a rectangular panel at the top, and the printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino was Portugal's instrument for colonial monetary management, and by 1909 it held note-issuing rights across a sprawling set of territories from Mozambique to Timor. This particular note was almost certainly issued for Angola or one of the smaller Portuguese African possessions — the P#4 designation places it within a series that predates the significant currency reorganizations that followed World War One.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is the technically interesting point here. The London firm was among the most rigorous security printers of the period, and their intaglio work for colonial issuers was consistently tighter than what most European state mints were producing domestically at the time.