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20 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 9th. Print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, London |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 20 REPUBLICA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRAZIL NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA A QUANTIA DE VINTE MIL RÉIS VALOR RECEBIDO VINTE MIL RÉIS 20 20 (Translation: Republic of the United States of Brazil At the National Treasury the holder will be paid the amount of Twenty Thousand Reis Amount received Twenty Thousand Reis) |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 20 VINTE MIL RÉIS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRAZIL - 15 DE NOVEMBRO(E) DE 1889 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. UNITED KINGDOM 20 20 (Translation: Twenty Thousand Reis United States of Brazil - November, 15 1889 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. UNITED KINGDOM) |
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Brazil's Thesouro Nacional turned to Bradbury Wilkinson repeatedly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this 9th print 20 Mil Réis is one of the more quietly consequential of those commissions. The arrangement was common among Latin American treasuries of the period — domestic printing infrastructure simply could not match the intaglio quality or the security features that London firms offered, so sovereign paper traveled across the Atlantic as a matter of course.
The "9th print" designation reflects Brazil's practice of issuing successive print runs under the same authorization rather than creating new series, a bookkeeping convenience that complicates precise dating within the 1900 issuance window.