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5 Centavos Real Flat Disc 2nd. Family
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Thickness | 1.22 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blank copper-plated steel planchet with no design elements, legends, or devices struck on the field. The surface exhibits a smooth, unworked appearance consistent with a flat disc trial piece produced to test planchet specifications for the second family of Brazilian Real coinage. A raised rim is present, forming the only defined feature on this face of the pattern. |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank reverse field with no struck design, inscription, or device. The copper-plated steel surface is unadorned save for a raised rim, confirming this piece as a uniface flat disc pattern intended to evaluate flan dimensions and plating quality prior to the finalisation of the 5 Centavos coin design for the second family of the Brazilian Real series. |
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The KM# Pn101–Pn104 references place this squarely in the pattern coin category — produced during Brazil's internal deliberations over the Real coinage system ahead of the Plano Real's July 1994 launch. The flat disc format of this family was ultimately rejected in favor of the segmented-edge and bi-metallic solutions adopted for the circulating series, making these patterns dead-end survivors of a design process that moved fast under enormous political pressure to stabilize a currency that had shed eight zeroes across multiple predecessor units in under a decade.