Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 7th print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
|---|---|
| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 165 × 75 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Intaglio and lithographic print in black and green. The central panel is occupied by a vignette of an equestrian statue of Emperor Dom Pedro II (1825–1891), 2nd Emperor of Brazil. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 1 IMPÉRIO DO BRAZIL 1 1 1 1 (Translation: Empire of Brazil) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Brazil's Thesouro Nacional issued this note in the final year of the Empire — Dom Pedro II would be deposed in November 1889, making the 1888 seventh-print series among the last to carry Imperial authority. The timing is not incidental: 1888 was also the year the Lei Áurea abolished slavery, a shock to the agrarian economy that accelerated capital flight and strained the Treasury's ability to manage its note obligations.
The American Bank Note Company had held the Brazilian government contract for decades by this point, and the intaglio quality on seventh-print examples is consistent with ABNC's mature production standards of the period. Paper deterioration along fold lines is a known weakness in this series — the stock did not age as cleanly as earlier prints.