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1 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 7th print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio and lithographic print in black on green underprint. At left, a vignette of the Imperial Palace of Petrópolis (Museu Imperial); at right, an oval portrait vignette of Emperor Dom Pedro II (1825–1891). The Arms of the Empire of Brazil occupy the central axis below the main inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPÉRIO DO BRASIL 1 UM NO THESOURO NACIONAL se pagará ao portador desta a quantia de UM MIL RÉIS VALOR RECEBIDO 1 1 (Translation: Empire of Brazil — At the National Treasury you will pay the bearer of this the amount of One Thousand Réis — Value Received) |
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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.