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| Emittent | Real Erário (Royal Treasury of Portugal) |
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| Jahr | 1805 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is engraved in an early 19th-century letterpress style, with a central oval vignette containing a standing allegorical male figure in classical dress, flanked by elaborate foliate and scrollwork cartouches. To the left, a large blank oval reserve is set within a crosshatched guilloche border, and to the right a circular crowned royal coat-of-arms stamp is visible. The body of the note bears manuscript handwritten text in Portuguese specifying the denomination, date, and terms of issue, with the city of issue 'Lisboa' and the year '1805' inscribed in the upper portion. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is largely plain, printed on the back of the cotton paper note with faint show-through of the obverse design elements visible through the sheet. A dry embossed or impressed oval official seal appears in the upper right area, accompanied by manuscript annotations and handwritten numerals recording administrative or accounting notations. Several handwritten signatures and endorsements are scattered across the surface, consistent with the verification and circulation practices of early 19th-century Portuguese treasury notes. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Real Erário — Portugal's Royal Treasury rather than a conventional central bank — issued these notes during a period of acute fiscal pressure, with the Crown increasingly unable to meet its obligations through coin alone. The 1805 series was printed in Lisbon under direct state authority, bypassing the banking infrastructure that existed in more commercially developed European economies at the time.
Authentication relied on manuscript signatures and an embossed seal rather than any engraved security printing — a distinctly low-technology approach that made counterfeiting easier than the authorities likely admitted. The two signing officials, Ribeiro and Soita e Sa, were Treasury functionaries, not bank governors; their signatures carried legal rather than monetary weight.
Within three years of issue, the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal would collapse the entire administrative apparatus that gave these notes their authority.