50 Mil Reis

The Banco do Brazil established in Rio Grande do Sul was a regional institution operating under a short-lived decentralized banking experiment in mid-19th century Brazil — distinct from the later centralized Banco do Brasil. The 1856 note predates the consolidation efforts that would eventually collapse these provincial issuing banks by the early 1860s. Bradbury & Evans was primarily known as a London publishing house — the firm printed Punch and worked with Dickens — but maintained a banknote printing operation during this period in partnership with specialist engravers.

Rille & Co. at Whitefriars handled the intaglio work.