Portrait of Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (1893-1945), with the left, drawing inspired by his own photograph, entitled Sombra Minha (My Shadow). Accompanied by the last verse of the well-known poem `Eu sou trezentos...` (I am three hundred ...).
Reverse description
Scene representing Mário de Andrade talking to children, flanked by the Martilnelli building and other buildings that symbolize the dizzying growth of the city of São Paulo at the time of the writer.
Signature(s)
Paulo Roberto Haddad, Gustavo Jorge Laboissière Loyola, Eliseu Resende, Paulo César Ximenes Alves Ferreira, Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
Effigy of the Republic
Obverse lettering
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL 500 000
CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL
E ENTÃO MINHA ALMA SERVIRÁ DE ABRIGO
MINISTRO DA FAZENDA
PRESIDENTE DO
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL
DEUS SEJA LOUVADO
MÁRIO DE ANDRADE
500 000 QUINHENTOS
MIL CRUZEIROS (Translation: Central Bank of Brazil 500 000 Brazilian Mint and then my soul will be a shelter Finance Minister President of the Brazilian Central Bank God be praised Mário de Andrade Five Hundred Thousand Cruzeiros)
Reverse lettering
500 000
500 000 QUINHENTOS MIL CRUZEIROS (Translation: 500 000 Five Hundred Thousand Cruzeiros)