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100 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 16th. Print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1924-1942 |
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| Currency | Real (1799-1942) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on a polychrome underprint, combining intaglio (calcography) and lithographic techniques. The central vignette presents a portrait of Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, sixth President of the Republic (1906–1909), flanked on either side by the denomination numeral 100. A diagonal handstamp autograph of the conference official crosses the body of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green in intaglio (calcography). The central vignette presents an aerial panoramic view of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, with the Urca and Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf) hills visible in the composition. |
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Brazil's Thesouro Nacional leaned heavily on the American Bank Note Company throughout the early republic period, and this note belongs to one of the longest-running series in Brazilian fiscal history — the 16th printing spans nearly two decades of issuance, bridging the relative stability of the Old Republic's final years through the Vargas Revolution of 1930 and well into the Estado Novo dictatorship. The political regime changed dramatically; the note design did not.
That longevity created real authentication headaches. Serial number ranges and signature combinations are the primary tools for dating individual examples within the 1924–1942 window, and forged or altered signatures on this type have been documented in the literature.