| Issuer | Brazil |
| Year | 2000-2001 |
| Type | Commemorative note |
| Value | 10 Reais |
| Currency | Real (1994-date) |
| Composition | Polymer |
| Size | 140 × 65 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil, Brazil |
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| Reference(s) | P#248 |
| Obverse description | Blue and orange on polychrome, in calchography and offset. Efigy of Pedro Álvares Cabral, the Portuguese navigator who discovered Brazil on 4/22/1500 and the Terra Brasilis map, one of the first representations of the new land. On the background, by the left, a section of the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha to the King Manuel I of Portugal, the first document of brazilian history, in which he described the newly discovered land. |
| Reverse description | Polychrome, in calchography and offset. Stylized version of the map of Brazil, formed by pictures. Some of them contain faces typical of the Brazilian people (Indian, white, black and mestizo), portraying the ethnic and cultural plurality of contemporary Brazil. |
| Signature(s) | Pedro Sampaio Malan, Armínio Fraga Neto, |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL
10
PEDRO A.
CABRAL
MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
PRESIDENTE DO
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL
Dez Reais (Translation: Central Bank of Brazil 10 Pedro A. Cabral Finance Minister President of the Central Bank of Brazil Ten Reais) |
| Reverse lettering | CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL
Dez Reais
10
Brasil
1500-2000 (Translation: Brazilian Mint Ten reais 10 Brazil 1500-2000) |
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| Catalog ID | 9750613370 |
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