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100 Réis Casa da Moeda
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Portugal |
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| Year | 1891 |
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| Value | 100 Réis |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a dense guilloche pattern covering the full field. At center, a circular vignette encloses the Portuguese royal coat of arms within a laurel wreath, surrounded by the legend CASA DA MOEDA. The denomination 100 Reis appears in large numerals on both flanks within the guilloche, with repeated numeral borders along all four edges and the word BRONZE inscribed along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CEM REIS CASA DA MOEDA BRONZE 100 (Translation: Hundred Reis Portuguese Mint Bronze 100) |
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Portugal's 1891 financial crisis — triggered by the suspension of gold convertibility in May of that year and the government's default on external debt — forced emergency measures across the monetary system. This 100 Réis note was among the lower-denomination instruments issued under those pressures, with Casa da Moeda acting as both printer and issuing authority, an arrangement that compressed normal institutional distances between production and release.
The réis unit itself was already archaic by 1891, surviving in Portuguese use until the milréis rationalization took firmer hold in everyday accounting. Notes of this denomination circulated hard and wore out fast.