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500 Cruzados

Issuer Banco Central do Brasil
Year 1986-1988
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Value 500 Cruzados (500 BRC)
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Reverse description The central vignette reproduces an engraving after a work by Johann Moritz Rugendas, rendered in a fine intaglio technique, evoking a dense Brazilian primary forest along a riverbank with a canoe carrying figures in the foreground. As on the obverse, the scene is flanked on both sides by Villa-Lobos's celebrated phrase — "Considero minhas obras como cartas que escrevi à posteridade sem esperar resposta" — printed in two overlapping diagonal lines forming a decorative textual border. The denomination 500 and the inscription QUINHENTOS CRUZADOS appear in bold letterpress.
Reverse lettering CONSIDERO MINHAS OBRAS COMO CARTAS QUE ESCREVI À POSTERIDADE SEM ESPERAR RESPOSTA 500 500 QUINHENTOS CRUZADOS
(Translation: "I consider my works as letters I written to posterity without waiting for an answer" 500 Five Hundred Cruzados)
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Protection description Portrait watermark of Heitor Villa-Lobos
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