2 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 10th. Print

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.