500 cruzados
Brazil · 1986
Issued by the Banco Central do Brasil in 1986, the year the cruzado replaced the cruzeiro at 1,000 to 1 under the Cruzado Plan. The front shows the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, named on the note, with giant water lilies and a piano keyboard. The back shows him conducting with a baton, against Amazon trees and a canoe on a river. Villa-Lobos drew heavily on Brazilian folk and Indigenous music in his work.
- Ref
- 160; 161; 162
- Country
- Brazil
- Issuer
- Brazil
- Denomination
- 500 cruzados
- Catalogue number
- Pick 212
- Date
- 1986 (catalogue date)
- Estimated value
- £0.70 to £1.24 · price guide: Numista
- Grade
- UNC (estimated from photos)
- Copies in the collection
- 3