500 Cruzeiros 1st edition; 1st print; Valor Legal

Features

Issuer	Brazil
Period	Republic of the United States of Brazil (1889-1967)
Type	Standard banknote
Years	1961-1962
Value	500 Cruzeiros (500.00 BRZ)
Currency	Cruzeiro (1942-1967)
Composition	Paper
Size	157 × 67 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	12 February 1967
Number	N# 204475 Numista type number (https://en.numista.com/help/what-is-the-n-number-visible-in-the-catalogue-33.html)
References	P# 172 Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, USA. And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Blue on polychrome in calcography and offset.
In the center, wrapped in a decorated frame, the portrait of João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael (Dom João VI), flanked by the numerals 500.

Lettering:
REPÚBLICA DOS ESTADOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL
TESOURO NACIONAL
500 500
QUINHENTOS CRUZEIROS
DIRETOR
CAIXA DE AMORTIZAÇÃO
MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
D.JOÃO VI
VALOR LEGAL
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.

Translation:
Republic of United States of Brazil
will be paid to the carrier of this amount of
National Treasury
500 500
Five Hundred Cruzeiros
Director of the Amortization Fund
Finance Minister
D.João VI
Legal Amount
American Bank Note Company.

Reverse

Lead gray in calcography.
In the center, the allegorical and pictorial representation of the "Abertura dos Portos" (Opening of the Ports), Cadmo Fausto de Souza.

Lettering:
500 500
REPÚBLICA DOS
ABERTURA DOS PORTOS
500 500
ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.

Translation:
Republic of United States of Brazil
Opening of Ports
American Bank Note Company.

Signatures

Carlos Augusto Carrilho (CAC)	Director of the Amortization Fund
Clemente Mariani Bittencourt (CMB)	Finance Minister
Reginaldo Fernandes Nunes (RFN)	Director of the Amortization Fund
Walther Moreira Salles (WMS)	Finance Minister

Comments

Specimen

Specimen note sample

Themes of this banknote
       
(1) Dom João VI (~1809), by Francesco Bartolozzi about the work of Domenico Pellegrini Domenico Pellegrini
 
      
(2) Allegory of the "Abertura dos Portos" (Opening of Ports) by Cadmo Fausto de Sousa

       
(3) Detail of "Valor Legal" (Legal Amount)

Notes

more... Federative Republic of Brazil and Cruzeiro (Cr$)

See also

• Allegory
• Painting
• Monarch
• Mythology
• Boats and ships

• 500 Cruzeiros (overprint on 500 Mil Réis i.e. P# 92)
• 500 Cruzeiros (1st edition; 1st print; Autographed)
• 500 Cruzeiros (1st edition; 2nd print; Autographed)
• 500 Cruzeiros (1 edition; 1st print; Valor Recebido)
• 500 Cruzeiros (1st edition; 2nd print)

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