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5 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 6th print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| In circulation to | 1870 |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note in black and burgundy red on white paper, with an allegorical vignette of Commerce, Arts and Science centered at the top, below the caption EMPIRE OF BRAZIL. Denomination numerals and text are arranged in a formal layout typical of mid-nineteenth-century chalcographic production by Perkins, Bacon & Petch. A handstamped serial number appears on the face; no print number is present on this sixth-issue example. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 CINCO 5 IMPERIO DO BRASIL NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA A QUANTIA DE CINCO MIL RÉIS VALOR RECEBIDO 5 CINCO 5 CINCO 5 (Translation: 5 Five Empire of Brazil At the National Treasury you will pay bearer of this the amount of Five Thousand Réis, amount received. 5 Five) |
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Brazil's Imperial Treasury turned to Perkins, Bacon & Petch for much of its mid-nineteenth-century paper currency production — the same London firm whose steel-engraved intaglio work had already become the global standard for secure banknote printing, used extensively by British colonial administrations and foreign governments unable to sustain domestic security printing. The "6th print" designation indicates this is one of several successive printings of the same basic plate design, a common arrangement when a colonial or imperial government contracted a fixed-plate run and then ordered replenishments as notes wore out or reserves depleted.
By 1866, Brazil was already eighteen months into financing the Paraguayan War — the most costly conflict in South American history — and pressure on the Imperial Treasury's note supply was significant.