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2 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 1st print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Size | 175 × 91 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in black on white paper, the note displays the Imperial Arms of Brazil in a vignette to the left, flanked at centre-top by an allegorical group of two putti representing the arts. The denomination numeral '2' repeats in a decorative border pattern encircling the note, while the central text panel carries the promise-to-pay inscription with reference to the authorising Decree of 1 June 1833, and a manuscript serial number space at upper centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 DOIS * 2 * DOIS * 2 * DOIS * 2 * DOIS 2 IMPERIO DO BRASIL Nº ____ 2$000 NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PA- GARÁ ao portador desta a quantia de DOIS MIL RÉIS, valor recebido. 2 Decreto de 1º de Junho de 1833. 2 * 2 * DOIS * 2 * DOIS * 2 * DOIS * 2 * 2 (Translation: 2 Two Empire of Brazil No. ____ 2$000 At the National Treasury you will pay bearer of this the amount of Two Thousand Réis, amount received. 2 Decree of June 1, 1833. 2 Two) |
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Brazil's Thesouro Nacional turned to Perkins, Bacon & Petch in London for this issue at a moment when the young empire had no domestic printing capacity capable of the intaglio security work the Treasury required. Jacob Perkins — the American-born inventor whose steel-engraving process had already transformed banknote production in Britain — almost certainly cut the original plates himself, though attribution within the firm's output from this period is not always clean.
The 1835 date places this note squarely within the Regency period, when Brazil was governed by rotating regents following Pedro I's abdication in 1831. Fiscal instability was chronic; the Thesouro notes circulated alongside provincial emissions and a congested mix of copper coinage, none of which the public particularly trusted.
First-print designation matters here — subsequent printings from the same plates show measurable wear in the fine line work.