This first note is a 5 Cruzeiros note from 1964 with a portrait of the Baron of Rio Branco with the reverse having a tableau of the conquest on the Amazon tribes.
Its funny how a small thing can catch your interest and this applies to this note. The polymer note has a red circle within the clear window - something I have never seen before. The note itself in a commemorative note issued for the 500th anniversary of the founding of Brazil. the books say the discovery of Brazil but I'm sure the Amazonian tribes had discovered the area long before the Europeans came there !! The front has Pedro Alvares Cabral, the Portuguese explorer who is credited with discovering Brazil and the first man to have set foot on 4 continents. the reverse has portraits of people.
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