Brown on polychrome, in chalcography and offset. In the center, wrapped in a decorated frame, the portrait of Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca (1st President of the Republic 1889 - 1891), flanked by the numerals 20.
Reverse description
Brown in chalcography. In the center, the allegorical and pictorial representation of the Republic, a painting by Cadmo Fausto de Souza.
REPÚBLICA DOS ESTADOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
DO BRASIL
SE PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DESTA A QUANTIA DE
20 TESOURO NACIONAL 20
MARECHAL DEODORO DA FONSECA
DIRETOR CAIXA DE AMORTIZAÇÃO MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
VINTE CRUZEIROS
VALOR LEGAL
THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: Republic of United States of Brazil will be paid to the carrier of this amount of twenty Cruzeiros in the National Treasury Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca Legal Amount Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London.)
Reverse lettering
20 REPÚBLICA DOS 20
PROCLAMAÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA
20 ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRASIL 20
THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON. (Translation: Republic of United States of Brazil Proclamation of the Republic Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London.)