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100 Reis
| Issuer | Tesouro do Estado de Alagoas |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Value | 100 Reis |
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| Obverse lettering | THESOURO DO ESTADO DE ALAGOAS 100 REIS APOLICE DO ESTADO DE ALAGOAS Serie J. EMPRESTIMO 500.000$000 JURO ANNUAL 6% No 73269 O portador desta apolice de CEM REIS recebera no Thesouro do Estado annualmente os juros de 6% a contar da data de sua emissão. COUPON 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 6 REIS |
| Reverse description | Blue monochrome reverse with a central oval vignette of a female portrait in classical style, set within a lightly engraved radiate underprint. The legend ESTADO DE ALAGOAS arches above in large serif lettering, with the denomination 100 REIS flanking the oval at centre. A ribbon cartouche below the portrait carries the authorising law inscription, and ornamental rosettes occupy the four inner corners. A numerical sequence 10 through 1 is printed along the lower margin, serving as a coupon count indicator. |
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The Tesouro do Estado de Alagoas issued this note under the broader authority granted to Brazilian states during the early republican period, when the federal government temporarily permitted regional treasuries to emit their own paper currency to address chronic coin shortages. Alagoas was among the smaller northeastern states to exercise this right, and its issues were correspondingly limited in scope and volume.
State treasury emissions from this period were rarely redeemed systematically, and many simply fell out of use as federal consolidation progressed through the late 1890s. Pick records only a handful of Alagoas types, making any survivor from this issuer genuinely uncommon.