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20 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Thesouro Nacional |
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| Year | 1885 |
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| Value | 20 Mil Reis |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown intaglio and presents a geometric lathe-work composition divided into a grid of eight ornamental panels, each filled with intricate guilloche rosette patterns of differing designs. To the left, a scroll-style banner carries the inscription IMPERIO DO and BRAZIL flanking a central globe vignette, with the numeral 20 positioned in a panel above. Repeated small numerals 20 are interspersed along the borders, and the American Bank Note Company imprint appears at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | IMPERIO DO BRAZIL 20 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Thesouro Nacional's reliance on the American Bank Note Company throughout the 1880s reflected Brazil's limited domestic printing infrastructure at the time — ABNC held effectively captive contracts with several South American treasuries simultaneously, and the Brazilian notes of this period share production characteristics with issues from Argentina and Peru printed in the same New York shop during the same years.
The Mil Réis denominations of this series are increasingly difficult to find outside advanced Brazilian collections. The 1885 date places this note in the brief window before the Abolition of Slavery in 1888 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1889 dramatically restructured Brazilian monetary administration.