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50 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Thesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S794 |
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| Obverse lettering | O THESOURO DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR A DOZE MEZES DESTA DATA CINCOENTA MIL REIS SÉRIE D PORTO ALEGRE THESOURO DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark grey-black with an elaborate guilloche surround framing a central architectural vignette of a large neoclassical government building, understood to be the Palácio Piratini in Porto Alegre. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large oval cartouches at both left and right flanking the central vignette. The word 'THESOURO' is inscribed in a curved banner at the top, and 'ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL' runs along the lower margin. |
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The Thesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul issued regional currency during the early Republic period under provisions that allowed Brazilian states limited rights to emit their own notes — a practice the federal government progressively dismantled through the 1920s and 1930s. By 1932, that window was effectively closed, which makes this note politically awkward to date: it falls the same year as the Constitutionalist Revolution and Getúlio Vargas's consolidation of federal authority following the 1930 coup.
Litografia e Livraria do Globo was a Porto Alegre commercial press, not a security printer. The absence of specialist intaglio work is immediately apparent in surviving examples, which show relatively simple lithographic execution with no deep-relief engraving.