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10 000 Reis - Pedro IV Overprint on P#5 - John Prince Regent
| Issuer | Real Erário (Royal Treasury), Portugal |
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| Year | 1826 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries decorative vignettes flanking a centrally positioned blank medallion, with the surrounding borders filled with geometric guilloche work, the left border being appreciably wider than the remaining three. The body of the note is executed in letterpress with manuscript insertions in fading ink supplying variable date and numerical data. A red crown stamp applied centrally to the face bears the overprint legend 'Pedro IV 1826', validating the note's continued circulation under the new reign. |
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| Reverse lettering | Printed: Nas (illegible) Legible stamps: Fevereiro 1800 - Janeiro Março 1801 - Março 1801 - Junho 1803 - Abril 1803 - Dezembro 1805 - Abril 1807 - Abril 1807 - Janeiro 1806 (Translation: February 1800 - January March 1801 - March 1801 - June 1803 - April 1803 - December 1805 - April 1807 - April 1807 - January 1806) |
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This note began life as a John (João) Prince Regent 10,000 Reis issue and was subsequently overprinted to acknowledge Pedro IV following his brief accession to the Portuguese throne in 1826. Pedro abdicated in favor of his daughter Maria within months, making his reign — measured in weeks rather than years — one of the shortest in Portuguese history. The overprint exists precisely because events moved faster than the printing infrastructure could follow.
The Real Erário handled issue domestically rather than contracting a foreign security printer, which accounts for the relatively uneven quality seen across surviving examples of this series.