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100 Mil Réis trial
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 100 000 Réis (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and yellow, the obverse carries a portrait vignette of aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932) at left, rendered in intaglio. The Coat of Arms of the República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil occupies the central field, flanked by denomination numerals and typographic legends. The printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue, London, appears in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain paper stock, consistent with the trial or essay nature of this piece. |
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Trial pieces from Thomas De La Rue's contract work for the Tesouro Nacional in the late 1930s occupy an awkward space — never formally authorized for circulation, produced to demonstrate color, paper quality, or design adjustments to the commissioning authority. Whether this particular proof was submitted as part of a competitive tender or produced mid-contract as a revision sample is difficult to establish with certainty. De La Rue held longstanding relationships with several South American treasuries during this period, Brazil among them.
Trial notes of this series rarely entered archival collections on the Brazilian side, which is why most survivors are traceable to De La Rue's own records or the London trade.