500 Cruzeiros 1 edition; 1st print; Valor Recebido

Features

Issuer	Brazil
Period	Republic of the United States of Brazil (1889-1967)
Type	Standard banknote
Year	1953
Value	500 Cruzeiros (500.00 BRZ)
Currency	Cruzeiro (1942-1967)
Composition	Paper
Size	157 × 67 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	12 February 1967
Number	N# 205533 Numista type number (https://en.numista.com/help/what-is-the-n-number-visible-in-the-catalogue-33.html)
References	P# 155 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
SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA A QUANTIA DE
NO TESOURO NACIONAL
500 500
QUINHENTOS CRUZEIROS
DIRETOR
CAIXA DE AMORTIZAÇÃO
MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
D.JOÃO VI
VALOR RECEBIDO
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.

Translation:
Republic of United States of Brazil
will be paid to the carrier of this amount of one hundred Cruzeiros
in the National Treasury
500 500
Five Hundred Cruzeiros
Director of the Amortization Fund
Finance Minister
D.João VI
Amount Received
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.

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 Recebido" (Amount Received)

Notes
There is no indication of print.


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

See also

• Allegory
• Painting
• Monarch

• 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 (1st edition; 2nd print)
• 500 Cruzeiros (1st edition; 1st print; Valor Legal)

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