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5 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 5 Escudos (5 PTE) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on a cream ground, the centre is dominated by a large circular guilloche frame bearing the bank name "BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO" in bold arched lettering, enclosing an allegorical female figure seated before a maritime vignette with sailing ships in the background. Ornate lathe-work corner pieces and symmetrical scroll devices fill the margins, with numeral "1" counters at left and right. The provincial payability inscription appears in a banner at the top, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | PAGAVEL NAS DEPENDENCIAS DA PROVINCIA DE CABO VERDE BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 1 Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ld. Gravadores, Londres (Translation: Payable at the branches of the Province of Cape Verde National Overseas Bank 1 Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers, London) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino occupied an unusual position in Portuguese monetary history — a private overseas bank granted sole right of issue across Portugal's colonial territories, operating simultaneously in places as distant as Mozambique, Timor, and Cape Verde. This particular note was issued for Portuguese Guinea, one of the smaller and more economically marginal of those territories, which meant issue volumes were correspondingly low and surviving examples are genuinely uncommon.
Bradbury, Wilkinson engraved and printed the series in London — a common arrangement for colonial issuers who lacked domestic security printing capacity and trusted British firms with the work throughout the early twentieth century.