100 Escudos - Camilo Castelo Branco - 1965

 

Once again, Camilo Castelo Branco... Depicted in the image is one more uncirculated portuguese Banknote, illustrated with our Portuguese Novelist Camilo Castelo Branco, March 16, 1825 - July 1, 1890 - whose 58 novels range from Romantic melodramas to works of realism. He is sometimes known as the Portuguese Balzac. Born illegitimately into a family believed to have had a hereditary tendency to insanity, Camilo was orphaned in childhood and brought up by relatives. He studied irregularly at Porto, first medicine and later for the priesthood, but eventually abandoned these professions for a literary career).  In the reverse, a magnificent 19th century street in the City of Porto.

First issue: 1965, 30 November 
   Issuing number: 168.192.000

Second and last issue: 1978, 20 September        
   Issuing number:  41.732.000

                                                                                                                               Recalled: 1987, 31 March

50 Escudos - Infanta D. Maria - 1980

 

Another beautiful banknote of Infanta D. Maria, but this time of 1980. The uncirculated portuguese Banknote depicted in the image is illustrated with the portrait of Infanta D. Maria (her full name was Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana de Portugal) - (8 June 1521 – 10 October 1577). In the reverse a sixteenth century view of the Hillside town of Sintra, one of Portugal's most popular tourist spots today.

Issuing number: 79.611.000

First issue: 1968, May, 28.......................................29.677.000
Second and last issue: 1980, February, 1.................49.934.000
Recalled: 1987

Banknote with Palindrome serial number. Radar note.

100 Escudos - Bocage - 1980

Single Digit Repeater

Probabilities: 9/99999 or 1/11111 - Serial number formed with the repetition of a single digit. The solid number is also a palindrome (radar note).

This extremely rare portuguese banknote portrays the romantic poet Manuel Maria Barbosa do Bocage, who was born in Setúbal (1765-1805), a town south of Lisbon, seated on the right with paper, books, pen and ink. Printed in blue, pink and purple. 

The reverse of the note shows a portion of Lisbon - image of Rossio Square as it was in the early 19th century, with crowd scene, printed in blue, pink, red and green. 

First issue: 1980, 2 September                                              Issuing number: 30.944.000

Second issue: 1981, 24 February                                                    Issuing number: 100.400.000

Third issue: 1984, 31 January                                                             Issuing number: 49.948.000

Fourth issue: 1985, 12 March                                                              Issuing number: 29.979.000

Fifth issue: 1985, 4 June                                                                       Issuing number: 20.278.000

Recalled: 1990, 31 May

Banknote with Palindrome serial number (Radar Note) and single digit repeater.

500 escudos - Mouzinho da Silveira - 1992

This is another portuguese 500 escudos uncirculated banknote with palindrome serial number. This time with the portrait of Mouzinho da Silveira, head and shoulders, on the right, and the Portuguese coat of arms on top left; stylised scene with sunset, tree and plough in the centre and a pattern of stylised grain in the four corners; printed in violet, blue, green and brown. 
In the reverse, one bundle of corn, sunflowers and grapevines with scythe in the centre and a pattern of stylised grain in the four corners; printed in brown, green, violet and pink.
José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira (1780-1849) was a leading liberal statesman who played a prominent part on the constitutionalist side in the political convulsions of the 1820s and 1830s. His politics forced him into exile from 1828 until 1834, and again from 1836 until 1839.

Issued date:1987, November, 11          - 19.900.000

                      1988, August, 4                 - 20.053.000
                       1989, October, 4                - 34.273.000 
                        1992, February, 13            - 47.420.000
                         1993, March, 18                - 22.000.000
                          1993, November, 4            - 25.000.000
                           1994, September, 29         - 10.460.000
Recalled date: 1998, April, 30

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

20 Escudos - Gago Coutinho - 1978, September

 

The front of this uncirculated portuguese Banknote is illustrated with the image of Admiral Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (17 February 1869 - 18 February 1959), portuguese aviator who together with Sacadura Cabral were the first to cross south atlantic ocean by air, from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. Image of a sextant in the centre background and national emblem to the centre top.
In the reverse the Seaplane (Fairey FIII -D MKII) dubbed Lusitania, in which Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho left Lisbon on 30th of March 1922, and also one ship, map outline of the route of the flight, Belém Tower at the entrance of Tejo river leading to Lisbon and two compasses.

Issuing number:  109.527.000

First issue: 1978, September, 13 - 29.645.000

Second issue: 1978, October, 4 - 79.882.000                                                            

Recalled: 1986, 30 May

Palindrome serial number

100 Escudos - Fernando Pessoa - 1987

 

In the image is our last 100 escudos banknote, illustrated with the famous poet, writer, literary critic and translator Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888 - 1935).
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer, today known mostly for heteronyms a concept stronger than pseudonyms, they were literary alter egos with intricate imaginary lives of their own. He managed to create a world of imaginary people, circumstances, and places fool using prominent magazines to publish his imagined personalities’ works. The truth was uncovered only some 50 years after his death, when his sister donated a chest with over 27 thousand documents – poems, critical works, philosophical tracts, novels, plays, horoscopes, letters and interviews -written by him, but, during his life, signed by more than seventy heteronyms whom he created and made into famous writers. Through the creation of these heteronyms, Pessoa expressed contradicting ideas about futurism, occultism, fascism, paganism, free love and existentialism.
In the reserve is one stylised rosebud and one tangle of ribbons with the writer heteronyms. 

First issue: 1986, 16 October                                                                                                 Issuing number: 19.968.000

Second issue: 1987, 12 February                                                                                                                            19.970.000

Third issue: 1987, 3 December                                                                                                                                 29.912.000
Fourth issue: 1988, 26 May                                                                                                                                        30.955.000
Fifth issue: 1988, 24 November                                                                                                                                34.629.000

Recalled: 1992, 31 January

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

50 Escudos - Infanta D. Maria - 1968

 

The uncirculated portuguese Banknote depicted in the image is illustrated with the portrait of Infanta D. Maria (her full name was Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana de Portugal) - (8 June 1521 – 10 October 1577). In the reverse: Drawing of Sintra Royal Palace in 1507.

Issuing number: 79.611.000

First issue: 1968, May, 28.......................................29.677.000
Second and last issue: 1980, February, 1.................49.934.000
Recalled: 1987

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

20 Escudos - Garcia de Orta - 1971

 

The front of this beautiful uncirculated portuguese Banknote is illustrated with the portrait of Garcia De Orta (1501 - 1568) - physician, naturalist and pioneer of tropical medicine, holding a book, on the right.
The reverse shows the image of 16th century market in Goa, India, (where he went in 1536, and lived until his death), with one crowd scene and houses in background.

Issuing number: 45.547.000

Issue date: 1971, 27 July                                                           
Recalled: 1986, 30 May

Palindrome serial number

500 Escudos - D. João II - 1966

 

Depicted in the image is one of the most beautiful portuguese escudos Banknote. This uncirculated banknote is illustrated with the  portrait of D. John II (1455-1495), the thirteenth King of Portugal and the Algarves, on the right, and also with the reproduction of an antique map of the coast of Africa in the centre.

Reverse: the central sculptural group with two figures of the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the compass rose on the left and the remaining drawings are made for the reproduction of an antique map of the coast of Africa.

First issue: 1966, 25 January  

Second and last issue: 1979, 6 September

Recalled: 1988, 29 January

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

100 Escudos - Camilo Castelo Branco - 1978

 

Depicted in the image is one more uncirculated portuguese Banknote, illustrated with Camilo Castelo Branco on the right (March 16, 1825 - July 1, 1890 - Portuguese novelist whose 58 novels range from Romantic melodramas to works of realism. He is sometimes known as the Portuguese Balzac. Born illegitimately into a family believed to have had a hereditary tendency to insanity, Camilo was orphaned in childhood and brought up by relatives. He studied irregularly at Porto, first medicine and later for the priesthood, but eventually abandoned these professions for a literary career).  In the reverse, a magnificent 19th century street in the City of Porto.

First issue: 1965, 30 November                                                 Issuing number: 168.192.000

Second and last issue: 1978, 20 September                                 Issuing number:  41.732.000

Recalled: 1987, 31 March

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

50 Escudos - Queen Santa Isabel - 1964

 

The uncirculated portuguese Banknote depicted in the image is illustrated with the portrait of Santa Isabel (Queen of Portugal and the Algarves during 1777-1816), in reddish-brown colors. In the reverse, an old engraving representing the city of Coimbra, with one large ornate circular arms.

Issuing number: 130.383.000

First issue: 1964, February, 28 
Second issue: 1965, June, 21
Third and last issue: 1979, May, 11
Recalled: 1987

Banknote with Palindrome serial number.

20 Escudos - Santo António - 1964

 

The front of this uncirculated Banknote is illustrated with the portrait of the Portuguese saint, Saint Anthony of Lisbon. On the back, the church of St. Anthony of Lisbon. It was printed in England, by the house Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. and there has been manufactured over 229 million units to date of May 26, 1964. The first issue occurred in January 19, 1965 and lasted until 31 October 1977. The notes were signed by the deputy governor, Manuel Nunes Jacinto.
Banknote with Palindrome serial number.