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500 Reis
| Issuer | Tesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Value | 500 Reis |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette enclosing the bold numeral '500', flanked by four symmetrical ornamental medallions at the corners composed of intricate lathe-work patterns. The legend 'THESOURO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE' arches above the central motif, with the authorising law reference 'LEI Nº 95 DE 15 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1896 ART. 3º' inscribed below. The printer's imprint 'LITHO DE J. E. PURCELL - PERNAMBUCO' appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | THESOURO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE 500 LEI Nº 95 DE 15 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1896 ART. 3º LITHO DE J. E. PURCELL - PERNAMBUCO |
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Rio Grande do Norte's state treasury issued its own paper currency in 1897, a practice permitted under Brazil's early republican federalism, which granted considerable fiscal latitude to individual states in the years following the 1889 proclamation. This note is among the more obscure products of that experiment — RGN was among the smallest and least-populated states to exercise the privilege, and its emissions were correspondingly limited in volume.
Purcell's Recife-based lithographic house handled printing for several northeastern state issues during this period, making it difficult to assign precise print runs from surviving examples alone.