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5 Reais Olympic Games Rio 2016 - Beach volleyball / Chorinho
| Issuer | Banco Central do Brasil |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a lively group of musicians rendered in high relief, depicting a Chorinho ensemble with figures playing guitar, cavaquinho, and flute in an animated, overlapping composition that conveys the improvisational energy of the traditional Brazilian musical genre. A bold stylized wave motif sweeps diagonally across the field, evoking Brazil's cultural vitality. The denomination 5 REAIS appears in the upper left field, and the date 2015 is inscribed along the lower exergue. |
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Brazil's mint produced an extended series of silver commemoratives tied to the 2016 Rio Games, each pairing a sport with a musical genre native to the country — an unusual conceptual framework for an Olympic issue. This piece links beach volleyball with chorinho, the syncopated instrumental style developed in Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, strongly associated with composer Chiquinha Gonzaga and later Ernesto Nazareth. The pairing was deliberate: the organizing committee positioned the Games as an assertion of Brazilian cultural identity alongside athletic competition.