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SCWPM.#239 - TBB.#B861aDate: ND (1993) - Grade: Unc. - Prefix: A/A - Signature: 19
Description: Overprint: 500 cruzeiros reais on 500.000 cruzeiros
Colour: Violet, orange, brown, and green. Front: Black circular 500 CRUZEIROS REAIS overprint;
Portuguese text; design of Andrade’s photograph “Sombra Minha” (My Shadow) with
text from Andrade’s poem “Eu sou trezentos” (I am three hundred); poet, Mário Raul de
Morais Andrade wearing hat and glasses; frog as registration device. Back: Portuguese
text; frog; first skyscraper in Brazil, Martinelli building in São Paulo; Mário de Andrade with
seven children. Solid security thread. Watermark: Head of República.
Printer: CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL. Size: 140 x 65 mm. Material: Paper.
More about: Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil; officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District.
It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language.
It is one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
