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2 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, Copper exchange note
| Issuer | Imperio do Brasil |
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| Year | 1833 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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.) |
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| Protection description | Paper watermark of a ladder-like pattern (known colloquially as the 'escada' or ladder watermark), formed by a series of parallel horizontal bars resembling ladder rungs, visible when the note is held to light. |
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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.