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2 500 Reis
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Vasco da Gama at left, colonial arms at upper centre, and an oval seal inscribed COLONIAS COMMERCIO AGRICULTURA at lower centre, with a sailing ship vignette at right. The note bears a guilloche underprint with denomination numerals in the side panels. Text panel carries the full obligation legend in Portuguese across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | PAGAVEL NA FILIAL EM LOURENÇO MARQUES BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied an unusual position in Portuguese colonial finance — it held note-issuing rights not just for one territory but simultaneously across multiple overseas possessions, a monopoly arrangement that made it structurally unlike most central or colonial banks of the period. This note predates the collapse of the Portuguese monarchy by barely a year; the Republic was proclaimed in October 1910, and transitional reissues of existing BNU stock were common in the immediate aftermath.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement places it within a well-documented production lineage, though attributing specific engravers to individual colonial issues from this house remains difficult without archival records.