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50 Cruzeiros Thesouro Nacional, 2nd print, 'Valor Recebido'
| Issuer | Tesouro Nacional (National Treasury of Brazil) |
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| Year | 1954-1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio on polychrome offset underprint. A central vignette presents the portrait of Princess Isabel (Isabel Cristina Leopoldina Augusta Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Bourbon-Duas Sicílias e Bragança) set within an ornate decorative frame, flanked on both sides by the denomination numeral 50. Issuing authority and obligation inscriptions are arranged around the central vignette, with the printer's imprint at the base. |
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| Signature(s) | Series 116-215 - Claudionor de Souza Lemos and Oswaldo Aranha Series 216-415 - Claudionor de Souza Lemos and Eugênio Gudin Series 416-585 - Carlos Augusto Carrilho and Sebastião Paes de Almeida |
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The shifting signature combinations on this note trace Brazil's turbulent finance ministry in miniature. Oswaldo Aranha returned to the Finance Ministry under Vargas in 1953 and was still signing notes when Vargas shot himself in August 1954 — Eugênio Gudin, a liberal economist ideologically opposed to nearly everything Vargas had stood for, replaced him almost immediately. The two men's signatures appear on successive series of the same note, an accidental record of that rupture.
Gudin's tenure lasted less than eight months before Sebastião Paes de Almeida took over under Café Filho's administration. Three finance ministers across a single De La Rue printing run, series 116 through 585.