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2 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 10th. Print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Value | 2000 Réis |
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| Obverse description | Green on ochre underprint, executed in intaglio (chalcography) and lithography. At upper center, a bust vignette of Marianne, the allegorical figure of Freedom and the Republic. The print and serial numbers are absent from this issue, with an order number printed in red. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface green, printed in intaglio. At center, the coat of arms of the Brazilian Republic, rendered with fine engraved detail within a symmetrical vignette composition. |
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Brazil's National Treasury relied on Bradbury Wilkinson for the long-running Mil Réis series through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with successive "prints" (estampas) distinguishing what are essentially iterative reissues of a core design rather than distinct denominations. The 10th Print designation places this particular issue well into that sequence — by 1902, the milréis had already weathered the catastrophic inflation of the Encilhamento boom-and-bust cycle of the early 1890s, which had flooded the country with paper and destroyed public confidence in government-issued currency.
Bradbury Wilkinson's intaglio work on this series is competent but not exceptional by their standards.