Catalog
2 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1885 |
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| Value | 2 Mil Reis |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPERIO DO BRAZIL DOIS 2 DOIS No THESOURO NACIONAL se pagará ao portador desta a quantia de DOIS MIL REIS VALOR RECEBIDO ESTAMPA 8ª SERIE 1ª |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue with an elaborate guilloche border incorporating floral rosette medallions and large numeral '2' devices at left and right. The central vignette, engraved with fine detail, presents a busy street scene before a grand neoclassical public building, with horse-drawn carriages and figures in the foreground and a church tower visible in the background. The lower margin bears the inscription 'IMPERIO DO BRAZIL' within a ruled panel, with the American Bank Note Company imprint along the bottom edge. |
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The Thesouro Nacional's 1885 emission came during a period when Brazil was still under Empire, three years before abolition and four before the Republic. The reliance on the American Bank Note Company in New York was well-established by this point — Brazilian federal issues had been going to ABNC for decades, and the relationship would continue well past the transition to republican government.
The "A252" Pick prefix signals this is catalogued among the earlier, less systematically documented Brazilian imperial issues, where specimen survivorship often outpaces that of circulated examples.