Evidence coverage: 1568–1942. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
The governor's July1692 fiscal report uses réis valuations while describing threatened tax collections and ecclesiastical and secular payrolls in the colonial monetary system.
Sources and qualifications →Brazilian réis accounting continued the transplanted Portuguese real system and differentiated through colonial monetary and liability arrangements. Seventeenth-century local devaluation and provincial reform document this regional branch. Explicit inherited accounting and local debt effects now supplement earlier issue/recoinage evidence. Promote from optional to primary ancestry; retain envelope as differentiation chronology rather than exact unit birth.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
The governor's July1692 fiscal report uses réis valuations while describing threatened tax collections and ecclesiastical and secular payrolls in the colonial monetary system.
C1778Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 28 supplies a new evidence basis for R0419. Explicit inherited accounting and local debt effects now supplement earlier issue/recoinage evidence. Promote from optional to primary ancestry; retain envelope as differentiation chronology rather than exact unit birth. Current evidence: Brazilian réis accounting continued the transplanted Portuguese real system and differentiated through colonial monetary and liability arrangements. Seventeenth-century local devaluation and provincial reform document this regional branch.
C1001Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Brazilian réis developed from Portuguese money, with imported coin circulation followed by provincial recoinage. A documented unit-family branch; intervening coin ratings and Spanish-coin inputs remain to be expanded.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 28 supplies a new evidence basis for R0419. Explicit inherited accounting and local debt effects now supplement earlier issue/recoinage evidence. Promote from optional to primary ancestry; retain envelope as differentiation chronology rather than exact unit birth. Replacement evidence: C1796.
Printed pages 6–10: imported Portuguese and Spanish coins, 1642 revaluation, 1694 provincial recoinage
Réis entry: Portuguese origin, colonial circulation authorization in 1568 and 1942 conversion
Brazilian real (réis) converted into Cruzeiro at 1000 old units per new unit.
Reform entries 1942, 1967, 1970, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1994
The 1831 reform converted obligations and deposits payable in Brazilian copper into the local Uruguayan monetary system. Attribution to the Brazilian real is a qualified contributing account-conversion input, not an exclusive founding parent or a claim that circulated coins alone create ancestry.
Articles8–10,13,18 and35–38; implementing endorsement7April1831; ChapterXIII sectionsI–II, paragraphs beginning El régimen colonial español; La dominación portuguesa; Al constituirse la República en1830
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full legislative transcription inspected Currency reform involved foreigncopper, locally denominated convertible notes and a mixedsilver/gold circulation.
Articles8–10,13,18 and35–38; implementing endorsement7April1831; ChapterXIII sectionsI–II, paragraphs beginning El régimen colonial español; La dominación portuguesa; Al constituirse la República en1830
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The governor's July1692 fiscal report uses réis valuations while describing threatened tax collections and ecclesiastical and secular payrolls in the colonial monetary system.
Section3, paragraphs beginning Em4de julho de1692 through payments of public administration
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Brazilian réis accounting continued the transplanted Portuguese real system and differentiated through colonial monetary and liability arrangements. Seventeenth-century local devaluation and provincial reform document this regional branch.
Lima2005pp.171–177,187–188;Lima1688sections1.3,3,4.1;Lima2025conclusion
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Not merely abstract.
Lima2005pp.171–177,187–188;Lima1688sections1.3,3,4.1;Lima2025conclusion
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Lima2005pp.171–177,187–188;Lima1688sections1.3,3,4.1;Lima2025conclusion
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.