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100 Libres Project for Mercosur Common Currency
| Issuer | Brazil |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 100 Libres |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 BCM PRESIDENTE BCM © 2010 ✣ LIBRES ✣ SÂSO ✣ LIVRES (Translation: BCM (Banco Central Mercosur = Central Bank of Mercosur) President BCM) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is blank. |
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| Comments |
This is a design proposal, not an issued note — one of several concepts circulated during the mid-2000s to early 2010s discussions about a potential Mercosur common currency, provisionally called the "Sucre" or, in some proposals, the "Libre." Brazil's participation in those discussions was always cautious; the Central Bank never formally committed to a shared currency framework, and no Mercosur monetary union has materialized.
Nascimento's project exists in the collector market as a specimen or presentation piece, not a circulated instrument. Its interest is purely documentary — a paper artifact of regional monetary politics that went nowhere.