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2000 Réis Duke of Caxias
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Engraver(s) | Walter Rodrigues Toledo |
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| Reverse description | Bold left-facing portrait bust of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, rendered in high relief and occupying the majority of the field. The subject is depicted wearing a military bicorne hat adorned with a decorative cockade and radiating plume, with flowing hair visible beneath. A full mustache and strong facial features are rendered with fine sculptural detail against a crosshatched background field. The inscription 'CAXIAS' is incused vertically along the left side of the field. The portrait is surrounded by a beaded inner border and a plain outer rim. |
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| Mintage | 1935 - - 2,131,000 |
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Luís Alves de Lima e Silva — the Duke of Caxias — was a 19th-century military commander whose suppression of multiple regional revolts, including the Farroupilha and the Balaiada, made him the closest thing Brazil had to a national military patron saint. By 1935, Getúlio Vargas was consolidating power and leaning heavily on nationalist symbolism; commemorative silver issues honoring Brazilian military heroes fit neatly into that project. The .500 fineness reflects a deliberate cost-reduction choice by the Casa da Moeda during a period of constrained federal budgets following the 1930 revolution's economic disruptions.