Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Mil Réis Thesouro Nacional, 1st print
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
|---|---|
| Year | 1835 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | 1843 |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in black on white wove paper. At left, the Arms of the Brazilian Empire; at centre, an allegorical vignette of an indigenous couple beside a Christian cross, symbolising Brazil's independence; at right, a text panel referencing the authorising decree of 1 June 1833. Denomination numerals and repeated legend border the composition on all sides. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 50 * CINCOENTA * 50 * CINCOENTA * 50 IMPERIO DO BRASIL Nº ____ 50$000 NO THESOURO NACIONAL SE PAGARÁ ao portador desta a quantia de CIN- QUENTA MIL RÉIS, valor recebido. 50 Decreto de 1º de Junho de 1833. 50 * 50 * CINCOENTA * 50 * 50 (Translation: 50 Fifty Empire of Brazil No. ____ 50$000 At the National Treasury you will pay bearer of this the amount of Fifty Thousand Réis, amount received. 50 Decree of June 1, 1833. 50 Fifty) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Brazil's Imperial Treasury turned to Perkins, Bacon & Petch at a moment when the firm's intaglio steel-engraving process was considered the most counterfeit-resistant printing technology available. Jacob Perkins had pioneered the steel die transfer method — allowing identical impressions to be reproduced from a single hardened master — and the Brazilian government was acutely aware of the counterfeiting problems that had plagued earlier copper-plate currency.
This is the first print of the series, distinguishable from later impressions by specific plate characteristics that specialists use to sequence the issues. The 1835 date places it squarely in the regency period following Pedro I's abdication, when fiscal instability made the credibility of paper money a genuine political problem, not merely an administrative one.