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50 000 Réis 1st. print

Features

Issuer Portugal
Issuing bank Bank of Portugal (Banco de Portugal)
King Louis I (Luís I) (1861-1889)
Charles I (Carlos I) (1889-1908)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Years 1888-1892
Value 50 000 Réis (50 000)
Currency Real (decimalized, 1835-1910)
Composition Paper
Size 190 × 132 mm
Shape Rectangular (hand cut)
Demonetized 5 October 1905
Number
N#
382483
References P# 62
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
, Silva# M-200 to M-208
Reinaldo Silva; 2023. Moedas de Portugal de D. Pedro Príncipe Regente até à actualidade (1667-2023): Notafilia de Portugal e Colônias = Coins of Portugal from D. Pedro Príncipe Regent to the present (1667-2023) (9th Edition). NND Publicações, Lisbon, Portugal.

Series: 1883-1886 Issue

Obverse

Black on light-red underprint.
Allegorical woman at left and right; Coat of Arms at lower center.

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive)

Lettering:
50
BANCO DE PORTUGAL
A Direcção do Banco de Portugal
Pagará à vista ao portador
e moeda de OURO valor recebido
CINCOENTA MIL RÉIS
Lisboa, 17 de Junho de 1889.

Translation:
Bank of Portugal
The Management of the Bank of Portugal
Will pay in cash to the bearer
and GOLD coin amount received
Fifty Thousand Reis
Lisbon, June 17, 1889

Reverse

Red and brown.
Geometric designs.

Script: Latin

Lettering: CINCOENTA MIL RÉIS

Translation: Fifty Thousand Reis

Signatures

Ernesto Driesel Schröter (EDS) Administrator
José Guilherme Ferreira (JGF) Administrator
Henrique de Barros Gomes (HBG) Acting Governor
Pedro Augusto de Carvalho (PAC) Governor

Comments

Various dates between 25.6.1886 and 26.2.1892.

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Date Signatures VG F VF XF AU UNC
1888-Jun-27  P# 62 - Issued note
1889-Jun-17  EDS, JGF Photo P# 62 - Issued note
1892-Feb-26  HBG, PAC P# 62 - Issued note

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 50 000 Réis (1st. print)Picture 1 of a sold 50 000 Réis (1st. print)
Stacks Bowers
August 2020 Auction
Lot 30280
Internet Archive
5 Aug 2020 1889-Jun-17 EDS, JGF – P# 62 - Issued note VF
(PMG VF-25)
USD 14 400.00
(incl. buyer's premium)
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