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10 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 1st print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in black on white paper. At left, the Arms of the Brazilian Empire rendered as an engraved vignette; at centre, a portrait of the young Emperor Dom Pedro II (1825–1891), second Emperor of Brazil (r. 1831–1889), shown as a child; at right, a textual reference to the imperial decree of 1 June 1833. The denomination numeral '10' and the word 'DEZ' repeat in a decorative border surrounding the note, with the principal payment legend in the centre field. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted; the reverse is blank, showing only the plain paper stock with show-through of the obverse intaglio impression visible in well-worn examples. |
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Brazil's National Treasury turned to Perkins, Bacon & Petch in London for this 1835 emission because the firm had already established itself as the preeminent source of security printing for newly independent states — the same intaglio steel-engraving techniques Jacob Perkins had pioneered in the United States before relocating to England in 1819. The choice was political as much as practical: domestically printed currency would have carried little public confidence in a country still consolidating independence from Portugal.
As the first print of the series, this emission predates the significant monetary turbulence Brazil would face in the 1840s and 1850s, when competing note issuers and successive banking crises eroded trust in paper currency across the empire.