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1 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 2nd print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Size | 170 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note in carmine on bluish paper. At left, a reference to the Decree of 1 June 1833; at center top, a seated female allegorical vignette representing Commerce; at right, the Arms of the Brazilian Empire. The denomination 1$000 appears in the central text panel, with the full payment clause addressed to the bearer issued in the name of the Thesouro Nacional. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain bluish paper, bearing only faint impressions from the intaglio printing on the face and what appears to be a faint ink stamp, consistent with standard Treasury issue practice of the period. |
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Perkins, Bacon & Petch won the contract for Brazilian treasury notes during a period when the firm was handling security printing for multiple sovereign clients simultaneously — the same intaglio technology used for early British colonial stamps was applied here. The steel-engraved plates produced extremely fine line work that local counterfeiters in Rio found nearly impossible to replicate with available equipment.
The "2nd print" designation distinguishes it from the 1833 first emission under essentially the same design mandate. Brazil's chronic shortage of small-denomination currency in the 1840s meant these notes moved through many hands quickly, and surviving examples with crisp paper are genuinely uncommon as a direct consequence of heavy use rather than poor storage.