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500 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Reference(s) | P#35B |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco Nacional Ultramarino 500$00 S. Tomé, 28 de Março de 1947. Pague contra este original de cheque (não o tendo feito pelo duplicado) á ordem de portador a quantia de QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS. Ao Banco Nacional Ultramarino (Translation: National Bank Overseas 500$00 S. Tomé, March 28, 1947. Pay against this original check (not having made it for the duplicate) to bearer order the amount of Five Hundred Escudos. To National Bank Overseas) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream-toned paper, showing show-through impressions from the obverse text and denomination; an embossed blind seal of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino is impressed directly into the paper stock at lower left. |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson printed this note for Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the Lisbon-based colonial bank that held note-issuing rights across Portugal's overseas territories. The specific territory this note was intended for matters: BNU operated parallel series for Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Portuguese India, and others, each with distinct overprints or engraving variants, and P#35B falls within the Mozambique series.
By 1947, Mozambique's wartime economic disruption had eased, but inflationary pressure on the escudo kept high-denomination notes in active commercial use rather than in savings. The 500 escudo value was substantial enough that these notes passed through relatively few hands — which works in favor of survivors today.