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2 Cruzeiros Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Diameter | 28.00 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a boldly rendered relief map of Brazil occupying the majority of the field, with the country's river systems and topographic contours finely engraved in high relief. The legend BRASIL appears in large incuse block lettering to the left of the map. Two horizontal lines are incused beneath the legend in the lower left field, with a shorter line in the lower right field. The engraver's initials appear at the base of the design below the map. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '2' dominates the central field in a bold Art Deco style, flanked on either side by sprays of laurel branches rising from the lower field. The date 1941 appears to the left of the numeral, with small five-pointed stars scattered in the upper field. A horizontal rule separates the central numeral from the denomination legend CRUZEIROS inscribed in bold capitals along the lower register. A cartouche containing the mint mark appears at the base, with a decorative rosette to its right. |
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Brazil's 1941 coinage program was being retooled under Vargas's Estado Novo regime, which had suspended the constitution in 1937 and was centralizing economic policy aggressively. This pattern was part of a broader series of trial strikes exploring nickel brass as an alternative to the aluminum bronze then in use — a material substitution driven partly by wartime pressure on metal supplies as Brazil navigated neutrality between Allied and Axis trading partners.
KM#Pn337 never advanced to circulation issue.