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The CR$ 1,000 honors the educator Anisio Teixeira; the CR$ 5,000
focuses on the figure of the gaucho, beginning a series which
intends to represent Brazilian types and regions. The CR$ 10,000 was
mentioned, but the CR$ 50,000 note, featuring women of Bahia (Pick
242, which had a short issue) was hardly mentioned. The CR$ 10,000
was not issued.
With the introduction of the new currency design - the Real with
its monochrome notes - the representation of regional types was
interrupted; perhaps the new Real notes can feature them, proposed
for 1998, as already mentioned.
When the gaucho note was presented by the Banco Central in June
1993, the Minister of the Treasury was Fernando Henrique Cardoso
(now President of Brazil), but the specimen was signed by Paulo
Haddad (Elizeu Resende was also between the two). One also notices
on the specimen a branch of the erva-mate (Ilex dumosa), when
the real ervamate used in preparing the unsweetened mate is Ilex
paraguaiensis.
This is not the first time that the gaucho appears on a Brazilian
note. From 1854 to 1889 (probable) notes of 30 thousand Reis of the
3rd Banco de Brasil (1st series; Caixas Matriz, Filial Sao Paulo and
Filial Ourou Preto - Violo 279, 301, and 324, respectively),
circulated. It was uniface. Printed in the upper part of the center
was a vignette of a gaucho. It was printed by the Casa da Moeda of
Rio de Janeiro by the second engraver F. F. Paradella.
Those who are born in Rio Grande do Sul are customarily called
gauchos, even though the gaucho is a particular American type,
common to three countries, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. So it is
not strange to see the gaucho portrayed on notes of the other two
South American Countries.
Argentina: 10 centavos, 1884, Banco Nacional (Pick 6); 10
centavos, 1891-1892, Banco de la Nacion (Pick 210-214) - reverse
center, action scene of a gaucho on horseback.
Uruguay: 5 Pesos, 1935, Banco de la Pepublica Oriental del
Uruguay (Pick 29) - obverse, lower right corner, vignette showing in
the foreground the bust of an old gaucho in profile and, as
background, a gaucho on horseback handling a lariat. This beautiful
vignette gives the feeling that the old gaucho is remembering a
scene of his youth.
Source: Boletim Informativo da S.F.N. Joao Pessoa, Ano XIII,
No 49, Out./Dez., 1996, Courtesy: Jose P. Siquiera,
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