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5 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | P#83 |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco Nacional Ultramarino Pagavel nas Dependencias da Provincia de Mocambique (Translation: National Overseas Bank / Payable at the Dependencies of the Province of Mozambique) |
| Signature(s) | António Augusto Correia de Aguiar & António dos Santos Viegas João Baptista de Araújo de Sá & António dos Santos Viegas Artur Meneses Correia de Sá & António dos Santos Viegas |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino was Portugal's designated issuing bank for its overseas territories, and this 1941 series covered Portuguese Guinea specifically. Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement here is consistent with their long relationship with BNU across multiple colonial currency series — the firm handled a significant portion of Portugal's overseas note printing through the mid-twentieth century.
Three signature combinations are recorded for P#83, all pairing a rotating left signatory with António dos Santos Viegas on the right. Viegas's persistence across all three variants suggests he held a fixed administrative post while the countersigning authority changed — the left signatures correspond to different governors or directors of the issuing board during the note's circulation life.