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10 000 Réis - Pedro II
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1853-1889 |
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| Value | 10 000 Réis (10 000) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Emperor Pedro II facing left, rendered in high relief with naturalistic portraiture. The emperor's effigy is flanked on both sides by the circumferential Latin legend PETRUS II.D.G.C.IMP. ET PERP.BRAS.DEF., denoting his imperial title by the grace of God. The date of issue appears below the bust in the lower field. The legend and portrait occupy the full obverse field in a clean, classical composition typical of mid-nineteenth-century Brazilian imperial coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brazil's gold 10$000 réis series ran across the later decades of Pedro II's reign, a period when the empire was financing infrastructure expansion and increasingly dependent on British credit. These coins circulated alongside a chronically depreciated paper currency, which meant gold specie was routinely hoarded or exported rather than spent — a dynamic the imperial treasury never successfully resolved.
The .917 fineness aligns with the standard set by the 1846 monetary reform that pegged Brazilian gold coinage to a fixed relationship with the milréis after years of monetary disorder inherited from the Portuguese colonial system.