Catalog
2 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, Copper exchange note
| Issuer | Imperio do Brasil |
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| Year | 1833 |
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| Currency | Real (1799-1942) |
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| Obverse lettering | Dois mil reis 2$000. Dois mil reis 2$000. Dois mil reis. 2 Dois mil reis 2$000. 2$000. Dois mil reis. 2 Nº ___ Rs. 2$000. Imperio do Brasil Esta cedula será recebida como moeda nas Esta- ções Publicas desta Provincia d___ _____ _____________ no valor de DOIS MIL REIS. 2 Rs. 2$000. 2 HUM MIL REIS 2$000. DOIS MIL REIS 2$000. DOIS MIL REIS 2 (Translation: 2$000. Two Thousand Réis Empire of Brazil This ballot will be received as currency at the Public Stations of this _____ Province in the amount of Two Thousand Réis.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears no printed design and is largely plain, with aged, foxed paper showing fold lines consistent with circulation. A single handwritten cursive signature runs across the centre of the note, applied by the authorising official, with additional manuscript notations visible in the upper area. |
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Brazil's Imperial Treasury began issuing copper exchange notes in 1833 as a direct response to the catastrophic over-minting of copper coinage in the preceding decade. Provincial mints had flooded the economy with debased copper, and these notes — denominated in specific copper coin values — were designed to give holders a way to consolidate and eventually redeem that coinage through the treasury. The scheme was, in practice, a managed withdrawal of excess copper from circulation.
P#A152 is among the earliest standardized paper instruments issued under the imperial government, predating the founding of the second Banco do Brasil in 1851 by nearly two decades.