Catalog
100 000 Cruzeiros 2nd Edition, 3rd Type
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Printer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil, Brazil |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL 100 000 PRESIDENTE DO CONSELHO MONETÁRIO NACIONAL PRESIDENTE DO BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK 100 000 cem mil cruzeiros CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL (Translation: Central Bank of Brazil 100 000 President of the National Monetary Council President of the Central Bank of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek 100 000 One Hundred Thousand Cruzeiros Brazilian Mint) |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. |
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The 100,000 Cruzeiros denomination itself tells the story of Brazilian monetary policy in the early 1980s — inflation was running above 200% annually by 1984, forcing the Banco Central to push note values into six-figure territory before the Cruzado reform of 1986 wiped the slate clean with a 1,000-to-1 redenomination. This is among the last issues of that doomed currency.
Czesław Słania's involvement on the obverse is the real point of distinction here. The Polish-Swedish master engraver — credited with over a thousand stamp engravings and regarded as the finest intaglio portraitist of the twentieth century — worked on remarkably few banknotes, making his presence in a Brazilian domestic issue genuinely unusual.