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| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | Real (1994-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA FEDERATIVA DO BRASIL 2023-1 0 REAL ALBERTO SANTOS DUMONT - 150 ANOS ALBERTO SANTOS DUMONT - 150 YEARS |
| Reverse description | Composite vignette of notable Brazilian landmarks: Christ the Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro), the National Congress Palace (Brasília), and the Botanical Garden of Curitiba, arranged across the note against a fine guilloche underprint with the denomination legend at centre. |
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The "0 Real Santos Dumont" is a commemorative polymer note issued to mark the centenary of Alberto Santos Dumont's death — he died by suicide in 1932, reportedly distressed that aviation had become a weapon of war. The face denomination of zero is technically legal but non-transactional; the note exists purely as a collector piece, continuing a Banco Central tradition of zero-denomination commemoratives that began with the 0 Real Hummingbird note in 2010.
Printed on Guardian polymer substrate, the production run was capped and distributed through direct purchase from the Banco Central, not through normal banking channels.