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1000 Réis
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1924-1931 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The allegorical figure of Abundance, drawn from Roman mythology, is depicted in three-quarter view facing right, with the right knee bent to the ground in a kneeling posture. She holds a cornucopia in her arms, from which fruits and produce spill forth. In the left field, the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crux) is rendered in stars, serving as a prominent national symbol. The design is executed in a classical allegorical style consistent with Brazilian coinage of the early Republican period. |
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Brazil's shift to aluminium bronze for the 1000 réis in 1924 was a direct response to chronic metal shortages and the economic instability that followed the First World War, when silver coinage had become too expensive to sustain at face value. The Casa da Moeda had been struggling with composition changes across multiple denominations throughout the early 1920s.
This series ran into the Revolution of 1930, which ousted President Washington Luís and brought Getúlio Vargas to power — effectively ending the Old Republic whose monetary framework these coins inhabited. Issues from the final year, 1931, were struck under a transitional government already planning currency reform.