Description:
Obverse
Portrait of Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1882-1954), President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.
Reverse
Lettering:
BRASIL
400
RÉIS
1940
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