200 Cruzeiros Thesouro Nacional, 1st print, Autographed

Brazil's Tesouro Nacional contracted the American Bank Note Company for this wartime series, a longstanding relationship that kept Brazilian federal currency production offshore throughout much of the mid-twentieth century. The "1st print, Autographed" designation refers to the manuscript signatures applied by senior treasury officials — a practice that distinguished early printings of this series from later versions carrying facsimile signatures, and which makes precise attribution important when cataloging.

The 200 cruzeiro denomination was introduced after Brazil's 1942 monetary reform replaced the milréis system with the cruzeiro. This note belongs to the earliest documented emission under that new framework.