10 Mil Reis

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.