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20 Réis - Pedro II Pattern
| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Year | 1838 |
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| Currency | Real (1799-1942) |
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| Reverse description | Central raised disk with horizontally engine-turned ground bearing the large denomination numeral 20 in bold serif figures. Surrounding the central disk, the flat annular field is adorned with a wreath of coffee branches rendered in high relief, the sprays tied at the apex with a small floral ornament and composed of plump, stylized coffee berries with fine stem detailing, curving symmetrically on each side to the base. The composition is enclosed by a finely toothed milled border consistent with the obverse, reflecting the refined craftsmanship characteristic of Brazilian Imperial pattern issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brazil's copper coinage in the 1830s was a persistent administrative headache. The country was flooded with counterfeit and worn colonial-era copper, and the imperial government repeatedly attempted to regularize small denomination production without ever quite committing to a solution. This 1838 pattern was part of that ongoing, unresolved effort under the young Pedro II — crowned at fourteen following his father's abdication in 1831.
KM#Pn53 never entered circulation. The copper small-denomination problem limped on for decades afterward.