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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 1385896, member: 28550&quot;]Hmmm... the &quot;War of the Ragamuffins&quot; may also have been the trigger event. The economic factors that caused it (low import tariffs on salted beef vs. high internal taxes) would seem to have the greatest effect on the currency:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Farrapos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Farrapos" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Farrapos</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or, it could just be that 1835 was a &#039;time of troubles&#039;, with all of these different epic disasters putting pressure on the value of the Brazilian Reale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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