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60 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| In circulation to | 1970 |
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| Obverse description | Red and pink intaglio-printed note with the bank name in a guilloche-bordered panel across the top. To the right, an oval vignette contains a uniformed military portrait identified as José Celestino da Silva, with his name inscribed below the frame. The centre carries the denomination in Portuguese and Chinese characters, the date 'Lisboa, 2 de Janeiro de 1959', and the Portuguese coat of arms, with two signature lines below captioned 'O Administrador' and 'O Governador'. |
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| Protection description | the Banco Nacional Ultramarino emblem visible in the blank left panel on the obverse. |
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| Comments |
The 60 escudo denomination was peculiar to Angola's colonial monetary system — an artifact of the peg to the Portuguese escudo and the practical need to cover specific transaction values in a territory where wage structures and local commerce didn't align neatly with metropolitan denominations. Bradbury Wilkinson, the New Malden firm that produced much of the British Empire's colonial paper, handled the print run with their characteristic intaglio work.
Five signature combinations are recorded for this single issue year, suggesting prolonged administrative use across successive bank directorships rather than multiple distinct print runs. Francisco José Vieira Machado appears as a constant across all five pairings — an unusual degree of continuity in the right-hand signature position.