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5 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 1st print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Currency | Real (1799-1942) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in black on white paper. At left, the Arms of the Brazilian Empire; at centre, a female allegorical vignette representing Commerce; at right, a reference to the authorising decree of 1 June 1833. The denomination numeral 5 and the word CINCO repeat as a decorative border element across the upper and lower margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 CINCO 5 CINCO 5 CINCO 5 5 IMPERIO DO BRASIL Nº ____ 5$000 NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PAGARÁ ao portador desta a quantia de CINCO MIL RÉIS, valor recebido. 5 Decreto de 1º de Junho de 1833. 5 5 CINCO 5 CINCO 5 CINCO 5 (Translation: 5 Five Empire of Brazil No. ____ 5$000 At the National Treasury you will pay bearer of this the amount of Five Thousand Réis, amount received. 5 Decree of June 1, 1833. 5 Five) |
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Brazil's National Treasury turned to Perkins, Bacon & Petch in the early 1830s at a moment of acute monetary instability — the young empire was hemorrhaging specie, and paper emissions from multiple competing authorities had badly eroded public confidence. Perkins had by then already established a reputation for security printing through intaglio work that was considered genuinely difficult to counterfeit, which was precisely the selling point for a government trying to reassert credibility in its paper currency.
Jacob Perkins developed the siderographic transfer process that underpins the plate work here — a technique allowing master engravings to be multiplied onto steel without quality loss, first commercialized in bank note production during the 1820s.