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10 Mil Réis Banco da República do Brasil, 1st. Print
| Issuer | Banco da República do Brasil |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a polychrome lithographic underprint, with allegorical female figures as lateral vignettes flanking the central denomination and legal tender panel. Print and series numbers appear in black, the order number in red, with the full statutory inscription citing Decree No. 1167 of 17 December 1892. The printer's imprint of Giesecke & Devrient is present at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome lithograph executed in blue, brown, and copper tones. At left, a large ornate guilloche rosette centres on the numeral 10, surrounded by repeated denomination numerals; at centre, a ribbon scroll carries the inscription DEZ MIL REIS over a fine guilloche background panel. At right, the Arms of the República dos Estados Unidos do Brazil — a five-pointed star within a radiate sunburst, encircled by laurel and coffee branches — occupies a matching guilloche medallion, with a scroll beneath inscribed 15 de Novembro de 1889. |
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The Banco da República do Brasil was itself a short-lived institution — formed in 1892 through the forced merger of the Banco do Brasil and the Banco da República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, it was dissolved in 1905 when the modern Banco do Brasil was reconstituted. This note falls early in that compressed institutional lifespan, printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig during the chaotic monetary aftermath of Brazil's Encilhamento speculation bubble, which had collapsed in 1891 and left the country's banking system severely disordered.
The "1st. Print" designation matters here — subsequent printings for the same series differed in detail, and the distinction affects attribution more than condition ever could.