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100 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Banco do Café, São Paulo |
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| Year | 1890 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is engraved in green and black, with the heading BRASIL / BANCO DO CAFÉ at top centre within a decorative frame. A central vignette presents two classical female allegorical figures seated on either side of a blank shield cartouche, one raising a trumpet, the composition rendered in fine intaglio line work. The denomination 100 appears in large numerals at both left and right within ornate guilloche rosettes, with ESTAMPA and SERIE designations alongside the serial number at upper left and upper right, and the imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse consists entirely of a large sheet of numbered interest coupons arranged in a grid, printed in brown on plain paper. Each coupon states the coupon value in Mil Reis (3$500), identifies whether it is payable in JANEIRO or JULHO, and bears an individual coupon sequence number. A vertical legend running along the left margin identifies the issuing institution and the payment terms. |
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The Banco do Café was one of several provincially chartered banks that emerged following Brazil's 1888 banking reforms and the Encilhamento — a speculative boom and monetary expansion under the early Republic that briefly flooded the country with competing paper currencies. The bank's lifespan was short; it did not survive the financial collapse that followed.
The American Bank Note Company printed the majority of Brazilian provincial bank issues of this period, and the plates for several Banco do Café notes show the high-quality intaglio work typical of ABNC's New York output in the early 1890s.
S541 is among the rarer survivors from this series — the bank's failure meant most unissued stock was likely destroyed rather than circulated.