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5 Patadas
| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Obverse description | Multicolored printing on light beige paper. Detailed composition featuring the portrait of Goofy (Pateta) in the central oval medallion. Decorative frame with geometric borders surrounding the design. Pretended issuer name on the right side. Face value in numbers 5 in all four corners and also repeated in large numerals above and below the central portrait. Face value written in full along the lower center. Text indicating validity for use inside the fictional territory of Patópolis (Duckburg). Pretended printer name on the left edge. No official issuing authority or date indicated. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolored printing on light beige paper. Detailed composition featuring the portrait of Goofy (Pateta) in a central circular medallion, surrounded by ornamental shapes containing the denomination. Pretended issuer name on right side. Face value in numbers 5 on upper and lower central ornaments and in all four corners. Face value written in full on lower center. Text indicating payment to the bearer at the Bank of Patópolis printed around the central medallion. Pretended printer name on left edge. Copyright notice along the lower margin. No issuing location or date. |
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The nickname "5 Patadas" — five kicks — was street slang attached to the 5 Cruzeiros note during Brazil's mid-twentieth century inflationary period, when the currency's purchasing power had degraded so thoroughly that the note was considered good for little more than an insult. Whether the name referred to the denomination's uselessness or to some rougher piece of popular humor is debated, but the term stuck firmly enough to pass into common usage.