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Description
| Issued by | Banco Central do Brasil |
| Issue | ND (2000) “500 Years Discovery of Brazil” Commemorative Issue |
| Size | 140 x 65 mm |
| Printer | Casa da Moeda (Brazil) – CdM |
| Watermark | Republic (Liberty head) |
| Series | A0001D – A0586D |
| Signatures | Pedro Sampaio Malan & Arminio Fraga Neto |
| Obverse | 500 years of the discovery of Brazil; Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral who discovered Brazil on 22nd of April 1500; the “Terra Brasilis” map; Part of Pero Vaz de Caminha’s letter; Five caravels (XVI century ships) from Cabral’s expeditio |
| Reverse | Stylized version of the map of Brazil, formed by pictures. Some of them contain faces typical of the Brazilian people (Indian, white, black and mestizo), portraying the ethnic and cultural plurality of contemporary Brazil. |
| Occasion | 500th Anniversary Discovery of Brazil |
