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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Year | 1943-1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1882–1954), President of Brazil 1930–1945 and 1951–1954, rendered in low relief. The portrait is unadorned and presented in a restrained, modernist style characteristic of mid-twentieth-century Brazilian coinage. The legend GETULIO VARGAS appears along the upper periphery, with BRASIL along the lower periphery, both in Latin script. The engraver's work, attributed to Orlando Moutinho Maia, conveys a formal official portrait with clean, precise lines. |
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| Mintage | 1943 - KM#555a.1 (with initials) - 13,565,000 1944 - KM#555a.1 (with initials) - 12,617,000 1944 - KM#555a.2 (without initials) - 1945 - KM#555a.1 (with initials) - 24,674,000 1945 - KM#555a.2 (without initials) - 1946 - KM#555a.2 (without initials) - 35,159,000 1947 - KM#555a.2 (without initials) - 20,664,000 |
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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.