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100 Réis Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 100 RÉIS in two lines at the centre of the field, enclosed within an open laurel wreath tied at the base with a ribbon and bearing a small shield device at its lower junction. A single five-pointed star appears immediately above the wreath opening. A ring of twenty-one five-pointed stars surrounds the entire design near the periphery, and the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO arcs along the lower rim within a beaded border. |
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Brazil's 1924 coinage patterns were struck as the government evaluated a shift in alloy composition for the lower denominations, a process driven partly by post-WWI metal economics and partly by ongoing monetary instability under the Old Republic. Most pattern strikes from this period never advanced beyond the trial phase, making survivorship largely a function of what left the Casa da Moeda in official or semi-official hands.
KM#Pn 250 is among a cluster of 1924 copper-nickel patterns that share the same political moment: the Tenente revolts had shaken institutional confidence, and fiscal reform was being discussed at every level of government.