Catalog
10 Ubérrimas 10 Reais
| Issuer | Prefeitura Municipal de Resplendor |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Real (1994-date) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolor note with a dominant blue palette, bearing a multicolor aerial vignette of the city of Resplendor at left and a blue vignette of an ox cart at right. Face value expressed in both numerals and words appears at the upper-right and lower-left corners, with a two-letter-prefixed six-digit serial number printed in black and oriented vertically along the right edge. Validity restrictions are likewise inscribed vertically along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed predominantly in blue, the reverse carries a vignette of the Santana church at left and a view of the city of Resplendor at right, surmounted by the municipal coat of arms. The issuer's name is inscribed at upper right, accompanied by explanatory text setting out the currency's legal basis and purpose; face value in numerals and words appears at the upper-left and lower-right corners, with the place name centered and oriented vertically. |
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Resplendor is a small municipality in the Doce River valley of Minas Gerais, and the "Ubérrimas" is a social currency — a moeda social — issued under the Brazilian complementary currency movement that gained momentum after federal legislation in 2013 opened regulatory space for community banks to formalize such instruments. The name derives from the Latin superlative of "uber," meaning extraordinarily fertile or abundant, an oblique reference to the region's agricultural character and the Doce valley's pre-2015 identity.
The Doce River disaster — the Samarco tailings dam collapse in November 2015 — devastated Resplendor economically and ecologically. Whether this currency is a direct response to that ongoing recovery is not something the catalog data confirms, but the timing of formalization and the choice of name are not incidental.