500 Cruzados

Features

Issuer	Brazil
Period	Federative Republic of Brazil (1967-date)
Type	Standard banknote
Years	1986-1988
Value	500 Cruzados (500.00 BRC)
Currency	Cruzado (1986-1989)
Composition	Paper
Size	154 × 74 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	15 January 1989
Number	N# 204465 Numista type number (https://numista.com)
References	P# 212 Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25^th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, USA. And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Portrait of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on a piano keyboard, with the left representing a Victoria amazonica in bloom. In the background an excerpt from the score of the work "Uirapuru". The set of images is flanked by the phrase "Considero minhas obras como cartas que escrevi à posteridade sem esperar resposta" (I consider my works as letters that I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response), given by the maestro, repeatedly written in two overlapping lines, each for a line on each side.

Lettering:
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL 500
CONSIDERO MINHAS OBRAS COMO CARTAS QUE ESCREVI À POSTERIDADE SEM ESPERAR RESPOSTA
PRESIDENTE DO
CONSELHO MONETÁRIO NACIONAL
PRESIDENTE DO
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL
CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL
DEUS SEJA LOUVADO
VILLA LOBOS
500
QUINHENTOS
CRUZADOS
CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL
CONSIDERO MINHAS OBRAS COMO CARTAS QUE ESCREVI À POSTERIDADE SEM ESPERAR RESPOSTA.

Translation:
Brazilian Central Bank
500
I consider my works as letters I written to posterity without waiting for an answer
President of the National Monetary Council
President of the Brazilian Central Bank
Brazilian Mint
God be praised
Villa Lobos
500 five Hundred Cruzados
I consider my works as letters I written to posterity without waiting for an answer

Reverse

In the background, an engraving based on the work of Johann Moritz Rugendas, representing a primitive Brazilian forest on the bank of a river, where a canoe appears carrying people.
The set of images is flanked by the phrase "Considero minhas obras como cartas que escrevi à posteridade sem esperar resposta" ("I consider my works as letters that I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response"), given by the conductor, repeatedly written in two overlapping lines, each for a line on each side.

Lettering:
CONSIDERO MINHAS OBRAS COMO CARTAS QUE ESCREVI À POSTERIDADE SEM ESPERAR RESPOSTA
500
500 QUINHENTOS CRUZADOS
CONSIDERO MINHAS OBRAS COMO CARTAS QUE ESCREVI À POSTERIDADE SEM ESPERAR RESPOSTA

Translation:
I consider my works as letters I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response
500
500 Five hundred cruzados
I consider my works as letters I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response

Watermark

Portrait of the Heitor Villa Lobos

Signatures

Dilson Domingos Funaro (DDF)	President of the National Monetary Council
Fernão Carlos Botelho Bracher (FCB)	President of the Central Bank of Brazil
Francisco Roberto André Gros (FRG)	President of the Central Bank of Brazil
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (LCB)	President of the National Monetary Council
Fernando Milliet de Oliveira (FMO)	President of the Central Bank of Brazil
Maílson Ferreira da Nóbrega (MFNᴾ)	President of the National Monetary Council
Elmo de Araújo Camões (EAC)	President of the Central Bank of Brazil

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_amazonica
Victoria amazonica
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1sPSAD9SEc
Symphonic Orchestra of RTVE - Uirapuru by Heitor Villas-Lobos
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Notes

more... https://en.numista.com/numisdoc/brazil-179.html
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Clarifications on Print, Series and Sequential Number
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Specimen note image (P# 212s)

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Date	Signatures	No. printed	G	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1986)	DDF, FCB	235 200 000	$ 0.33						12%	P# 212a; Series #0001 - 2352
ND (1986)	DDF, FCB								0.13%	P# 212s; Specimen (MODELO)
ND (1987)	DDF, FRG	49 000 000							5%	P# 212b; Series #2353 - 2842
ND (1987)	LCB, FMO	466 200 000		$ 0.53	$ 0.53	$ 0.53	$ 0.89	$ 1.06	63%	P# 212c; Series #2843 - 7504
ND (1988)	MFNᴾ, EAC	80 500 000						$ 0.93	40%	P# 212d; Series #7505 - 8309

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