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100 Cruzados Abolition of Slavery, man
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Cruzado (1986-1989) |
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| Obverse description | A stylized male bust in right profile occupies the right half of the field, rendered in a bold outline design. A vertical dividing line bisects the coin, separating the portrait from the left field, which bears the commemorative dates 1888 and 1988 stacked one above the other. The curved legend CENTENARIO DA ABOLIÇÃO arcs along the upper left periphery, while the Afro-Brazilian spiritual salutation AXÉ appears in the lower right field beneath the portrait. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark the centenary of the Lei Áurea, signed by Princess Isabel on May 13, 1888 — the law that abolished slavery in Brazil, the last country in the Western Hemisphere to do so. Brazil had imported an estimated 4.9 million enslaved Africans over three and a half centuries, more than any other destination in the transatlantic trade. The centenary commemoration was politically charged; 1988 was also the year Brazil ratified its new democratic constitution after two decades of military rule.