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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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| Reverse description | A multi-figure scene illustrates three generations of female bilro lacemakers engaged in their craft, with tools of the trade — sandals, a thread container, scissors, needle, a lace cushion, and wooden bobbins of varying shapes — arranged in the composition to emphasise the tradition and artisanship of northeast Brazilian lacework. The denomination 10 000 appears at left and right, with the caption RENDEIRAS DE BILRO and DEZ MIL CRUZEIROS REAIS below. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 000 RENDEIRAS DE BILRO 10 000 DEZ MIL CRUZEIROS REAIS (Translation: 10 000 Bobbin Lacemakers 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.