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2000 Réis - Pedro II
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1886-1889 |
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| Value | 2000 Réis |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned left-facing bust of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, depicted in mature effigy with swept-back hair, full beard, and moustache, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features. The peripheral legend reads PETRUS II D.G.C.IMP. ET PERP.BRAS.DEF., running clockwise from the lower left to the upper right of the field. The mint year appears in large numerals at the base of the design, flanked on each side by a small six-pointed star, with a toothed or dentilated border encircling the entire obverse. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Brazil's 2000 réis silver coinage of this period was produced under Pedro II during the final, turbulent years of the Empire — the same years the abolitionist movement was dismantling the slave economy that had underwritten Brazilian agriculture for three centuries. The Golden Law of May 1888 ended slavery outright, alienating the planter class whose political loyalty had long propped up the monarchy. Pedro II was deposed by a military coup in November 1889, making the last issues of this type among the final coins struck under any Brazilian emperor.