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10 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1885 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in olive-green, composed of an elaborate geometric lathe-work pattern of interlocking rosettes, floral guilloché panels and starburst motifs arranged in a grid across the full note surface. A central circular seal bears the inscription 'IMPERIO DO BRAZIL' surrounding a globe device, with the denomination numeral '10' appearing in two cartouches at the left and right margins. |
| Reverse lettering | IMPERIO DO BRAZIL 10 10 |
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The Thesouro Nacional do Imperio do Brazil relied heavily on American Bank Note Company throughout the 1880s, a period when Brazil's imperial government was under mounting fiscal pressure from abolition costs and a restless military. This note was issued roughly four years before the proclamation of the Republic in 1889, which rendered the entire imperial treasury note series obsolete almost overnight — surviving examples were neither redeemed efficiently nor systematically destroyed, leaving circulation histories difficult to reconstruct.
ABNC's intaglio work on Brazilian imperial paper is generally among their cleaner commissions of the decade. The 10 Mil Reis denomination sat at the higher end of everyday commerce.