5000 Reis

Banco Nacional Ultramarino held a privileged position as the primary bank of issue for Portugal's overseas territories, and this 1909 note was valid across multiple colonial jurisdictions — the same plates were sometimes adapted with overprints or different payable clauses for use in Angola, Mozambique, and other possessions, though the base series was printed in London by Bradbury Wilkinson regardless of where it ultimately circulated.

Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work of this period is technically clean, and the firm had established itself firmly in colonial currency printing by the turn of the century. The 5000 Réis denomination placed this note at the upper end of everyday transaction values in the Portuguese colonial monetary system before the escudo replaced the réis in 1911.