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| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Year | 1943-1947 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Orlando Moutinho Maia Reverse: Benedicto de Araújo Ribeiro |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brazil's wartime metal shortages forced repeated compositional shifts across the centavo series during this period — the steel and zinc experiments of the early 1940s gave way to this aluminium bronze alloy as supplies and priorities reshuffled under Vargas's Estado Novo government. The two KM subtype variants (555a.1 and 555a.2) reflect die or mint-mark distinctions documented by Bentes, though neither is dramatically scarcer than the other in circulated grades.