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500 Mil Réis Banco do Brasil, Provisional Issue
| Issuer | Banco do Brasil |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil, Brazil |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 500 REPÚBLICA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL NO BANCO DO BRASIL SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA, DE ACORDO COM A LEI Nº 4635 DE 8 DE JANEIRO DE 1923, A QUANTIA DE 500 QUINHENTOS MIL RÉIS 500 VALOR RECEBIDO CASA DA MOEDA - RIO SPECIMEN (Translation: Republic of the United States of Brazil in the Banco do Brasil in accordance with Law no. 4635 of January 8, 1923, the amount of Five Hundred Thousand Réis Amount received Casa da Moeda - Rio Specimen) |
| Reverse description | Printed in sepia by woodcut engraving on an ochre ground. The central vignette carries the Arms of the Republic of the United States of Brazil — a five-pointed star set within a circular wreath, inscribed "ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL / 15 DE NOV. DE 1889" — surrounded by dense lathe-work guilloche borders. Denomination numeral "500" appears within ornate guilloche rosettes at left and right, with the legend "QUINHENTOS MIL RÉIS" along the lower border; two diagonal red "SPECIMEN" overprints are applied across the face. |
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Brazil's Banco do Brasil notes of the early 1920s were frequently provisional in the most literal sense — existing stock was overprinted or modified rather than replaced outright, largely because Casa da Moeda lacked the capacity to keep pace with the inflationary pressures following World War One and the subsequent commodity slump that hit Brazilian coffee revenues hard. This particular provisional issue reflects that institutional scramble.
Pick 110 is among the less documented entries in the Banco do Brasil provisional series, and genuine examples with clear overprint impressions are more elusive than catalog frequency might suggest.