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100 Mil Reis

Issuer Banco Credito Popular do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Year 1890
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Composition Cotton paper
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Obverse description Multicolour note in olive-green and pink tones with a large lion's head vignette at left within an oval frame, the numeral 100 printed boldly in each lower corner. At centre, handwritten-style text reads 'Na Thesouraria do Banco se paga ao portador a quantia de CEM MIL REIS' within a guilloche underprint ground. To the right, an allegorical female figure reclines amid foliage in an intaglio vignette. The bank title 'BANCO DE CREDITO POPULAR DO BRAZIL / Rio de Janeiro' appears across the upper portion, with serial number and series designations printed vertically along the left margin in red.
Obverse lettering BANCO DE CREDITO POPULAR DO BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro
CEM MIL REIS
Na Thesouraria do Banco se paga ao portador a quantia de
EM OURO E A VISTA NOS TERMOS
DO DECRETO NUMERO 253 DE 8 DE MARÇO DE 1890
SERIE 1A
ESTAMPA 1A
100
Reverse description Printed entirely in deep red-pink on a white ground, the reverse centres on a large intaglio pastoral vignette of a flock of sheep resting beneath a broad tree in a rural landscape. The vignette is enclosed within an ornate lathe-work border with repeating geometric guilloche patterns extending to all four corners. The bank name 'BANCO DE' appears at upper centre and 'CREDITO POPULAR DO BRAZIL' along the lower margin, with the numeral 100 rendered in mirror image at left and right within panel cartouches. A decree reference panel at upper left reads 'DECRETO No 1036 B DE 11 DE NOVEMBRO DE 1890'.
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