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1000 Cruzeiros Thesouro Nacional, 1st print, Autographed
| Issuer | Tesouro Nacional do Brasil (Brazilian National Treasury) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 157 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio on polychrome offset underprint. A central oval vignette presents a portrait of Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467/68–1520), discoverer of Brazil, set within a fine guilloche border. The legend 'REPÚBLICA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL' arcs above the vignette, with the denomination 'MIL CRUZEIROS / VALOR RECEBIDO' inscribed below; serial and sequence numbers appear in the upper and lower corners on both sides, and an autograph of the conference official is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DOS 1000 1000 PRIMEIRA MISSA ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Republic of the First Mass United States of Brazil American Bank Note Company.) |
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Brazil's wartime finances leaned heavily on ABNC-printed currency throughout the early 1940s, and this 1000 Cruzeiros note is among the higher denominations to carry handwritten authorization signatures — a practice the Tesouro Nacional maintained for select issues as a control measure against unauthorized duplication. The "autographed" designation refers to those manuscript signatures applied by treasury officials, not pre-printed facsimiles, making each example technically unique in that narrow sense.
Victor Meirelles is best known as a 19th-century academic painter, one of the founders of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. His involvement here is as a design source rather than direct commission — ABNC adapted existing imagery from his work for the engraved vignettes.