100 Réis - Pedro II

Brazil's first Pedro II coinage was authorized as the young emperor approached his majority — he had taken the throne at fourteen following his father's abdication in 1831, with a regency governing in his name until 1840. These early silver issues were struck at the Casa da Moeda do Rio de Janeiro during a period of chronic political instability, including the Farroupilha separatist revolt in the south, which ran almost the entire length of this type's production window.

The .917 fineness matches colonial-era Brazilian silver standards, maintained deliberately to retain merchant confidence during the transition to a fully sovereign monetary system after independence from Portugal in 1822.