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50 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 10th. Print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1908 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 50 REPÚBLICA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRAZIL NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA A QUANTIA DE CINCOENTA MIL RÉIS VALOR RECEBIDO SPECIMEN GEO. DUVAL INV. ET FEL. EMILE CROSBIE SC. (Translation: Republic of the United States of Brazil At the National Treasury the holder will be paid the amount of Fifty Thousand Reis Amount received Specimen GEO. DUVAL INV. ET FEL. EMILE CROSBIE SC.) |
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| Protection description | a woman's head in profile and the text CINCOENTA MIL RÉIS, visible in reserved blank panels on the obverse. |
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The 10th Print designation marks this as part of a long-running series of successive impressions from the same plates — a practice the Casa da Moeda continued well past the point where the underlying plate quality was holding up. By the later impressions, ink transfer could be noticeably uneven, and collectors have long noted that distinguishing prints requires careful attention to the overprinted numbering and serial characteristics rather than design differences, which remained fixed.
Duval's design and Crosbie's engraving were French in origin and execution, commissioned during a period when Brazilian printing infrastructure, though improving, still leaned on European artistic talent for prestige currency work — even when the physical printing was done domestically at the Rio facility.