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10 000 Cruzeiros Reais trial
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Centre-right vignette of an elderly female lacemaker (rendeira) in three-quarter portrait, wearing a headscarf and traditional dress, rendered in intaglio against a warm ochre and brown guilloche underprint. To her left, a bilro lace cushion with bobbins and pins is shown in detail. Denominations of 10 000 appear at upper right and lower left, with the issuer name at top, the motto DEUS SEJA LOUVADO, and the caption RENDEIRA at centre; two facsimile signature lines appear at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL RENDEIRA DEUS SEJA LOUVADO MINISTRO DA FAZENDA PRESIDENTE DO BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL 10 000 DEZ MIL CRUZEIROS REAIS (Translation: Central Bank of Brazil Brazilian Mint Lacemaker God be praised Finance Minister President of the Central Bank of Brazil 10 000 Ten Thousand Cruzeiros Reais) |
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Trial pieces for this denomination are among the few surviving artifacts of a currency that barely outlasted its own introduction. The Cruzeiro Real was launched in August 1993 as a transitional unit ahead of the Plano Real — itself still being engineered — with the explicit understanding that it would be replaced within roughly a year. It was, in July 1994, making this one of the shorter-lived Brazilian currencies on record.
Casa da Moeda trials from this period were produced for internal approval and rarely escaped the printing house through official channels. Survivors in collector hands almost always have murky provenance.