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100 Cruzados
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 1986-1988 |
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| Value | 100 Cruzados (100 BRC) |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait vignette of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of the Republic from 1956 to 1961. At left, the foreground presents an electric power transmission station, with a highway receding into the background, rendered in multicolour underprint and intaglio. The face value "100" and the issuer's title appear in bold letterpress, with guilloche patterns framing the central design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 100 CEM CRUZADOS (Translation: 100 One Hundred Cruzados) |
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This note exists because of the Cruzado Plan, launched in February 1986 under Finance Minister Funaro — Brazil's attempt to break hyperinflation through a currency conversion, a wage-price freeze, and a wholesale redenomination that replaced the cruzeiro at 1,000:1. The plan briefly worked, holding inflation near zero for several months, which gave these notes a genuine period of stable circulation before the freeze collapsed spectacularly in late 1986.
The four signature combinations documented across the series trace the rapid turnover of economic ministers as the plan unraveled — Funaro, Bracher, Bresser Pereira, and finally Mailson da Nóbrega, each inheriting a worse situation than the last. By the time the final signature range was issued, Brazil was already preparing the cruzado novo to replace this series.