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20 Centavos seal type II
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint. The Portuguese Coat of Arms appears at right, with the bank seal (Type II) at bottom centre. The face bears the issuing bank title and denomination inscriptions arranged across the note, with the date and printer's imprint at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO EM S. TIAGO DEZ VINTE CENTAVOS MOEDA CORRENTE LISBOA, 5 de Novembro de 1914. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ld. Gravadores, Londres (Translation: National Overseas Bank in St. Tiago Twenty Cents Legal Tender Lisbon, 5 November 1914. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers, London) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino's wartime fractional issues for Portuguese Guinea were a direct response to the chronic shortage of small coinage that plagued the territory in the early years of the First World War. Bradbury, Wilkinson produced clean, reliable work for BNU throughout this period, and the Guinea fractionals share their general execution with other colonial emergency issues the London firm handled simultaneously.
The "seal type II" designation distinguishes this from the otherwise identical type I by the stamp applied at issue — a detail that trips up collectors who treat the two as interchangeable.