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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda do Brasil |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50 BRZ) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTAVOS 1956 |
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| Additional information |
Brazil's aluminium-brass coinage of the 1950s emerged from a deliberate shift away from the cupronickel alloys that had dominated earlier decades, driven partly by raw material costs and partly by the Vargas-era industrialization push that had reshaped domestic metals production. The 1956 date places this piece in the early Kubitschek administration — a government so fixated on rapid modernization that monetary stability was routinely sacrificed for development spending, making circulated survivors of this period common and uncirculated pieces surprisingly elusive.