200 Cruzeiros Thesouro Nacional, 2nd print, Autographed

Brazil's Tesouro Nacional issued several denominations through Thomas De La Rue in London during the late 1940s, a period when the country's domestic printing capacity was being supplemented — and sometimes bypassed entirely — by British security printers. The "autographed" designation for this second print indicates manuscript signatures applied directly to the note rather than facsimile signatures incorporated into the engraved plate, a practice that was already becoming obsolete at this denomination level by the early 1950s.

The P#147 series is not especially rare, but second-print examples with intact original signatures draw consistent attention from Brazilian specialists.