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50 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Thesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul |
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| Year | 1932 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and black tones, with a circular portrait vignette of a male figure at left, set within an ornate guilloche border. The large numeral '50' appears at centre-right as an underprint element, flanked by decorative scroll work, with the serial number printed in red at lower left and upper right. A date inscription reading 'Porto Alegre, 3 de Maio de 1932' appears at right, below a block of issuing authority text, with a manuscript signature across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | THESOURO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL 50 50 |
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The Thesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul issued regional currency during the early Republic period under provisions that allowed Brazilian states limited rights to emit their own notes — a practice the federal government progressively dismantled through the 1920s and 1930s. By 1932, that window was effectively closed, which makes this note politically awkward to date: it falls the same year as the Constitutionalist Revolution and Getúlio Vargas's consolidation of federal authority following the 1930 coup.
Litografia e Livraria do Globo was a Porto Alegre commercial press, not a security printer. The absence of specialist intaglio work is immediately apparent in surviving examples, which show relatively simple lithographic execution with no deep-relief engraving.