10 000 Cruzeiros Reais trial

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.