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5 Mil Réis State Bonus, Series D
| Issuer | Tesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown, with a central architectural vignette of the State Treasury Building set within an elaborate guilloche border. Large numeral "5" underprints appear in oval cartouches at left and right, flanked by dense scrollwork and floral ornaments. The issuing authority title is inscribed in a banner across the lower portion of the central vignette, with the printer's imprint at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | THESOURO do ESTADO do RIO GRANDE do SUL Lithographia da Livr. Do Globo. Porto Alegre (Translation: Treasury of the State of Rio Grande do Sul Lithography of Globo Bookshop. Porto Alegre) |
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The 1932 Rio Grande do Sul state bonus issues were emergency instruments tied directly to the Constitutionalist Revolution — specifically to the financial strain on Getúlio Vargas's home state as Brazil fractured along regional lines following the 1930 coup. Series D indicates this is one of several sequential releases as demand for small-denomination scrip outpaced earlier printings.
Lithografia da Livraria do Globo was a Porto Alegre commercial printing house, not a security printer. The note's local manufacture reflects wartime expediency rather than any institutional preference.