Ecology gold
Features
| Location |
Brazil
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Federative Republic of Brazil (1967-date)
|
| Type | Commemorative medals › Event medals |
| Year | 1978 |
| Composition | Gold (.900) |
| Weight | 100 g |
| Diameter | 50 mm |
| Thickness | 4 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | 3 o'clock ↑→ |
| Number | N# 515793 |
Commemorative issue
Creation of Brazil's Ministry of Environment
Obverse
Embryonic form with date.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
1978
P. Correia de Araujo
Designer: Pedro Correia de Araújo
Reverse
Allegory of sun, bird of paradise flower, rain and cashew fruit surrounded by text.
Script: Latin
Lettering: A TERRA EM TAL MANEIRA É GRACIOSA...
Translation: The land is in such way graciful...
Designer: Pedro Correia de Araújo
Edge
Script: Latin
Mint
Mint of Brazil (Casa da Moeda do Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1694-date)Comments
Medal alluding to Ecology to celebrate the creation of Brazil's Special Secretariat for the Environment in 1974 (changed to Ministry of Environment in 1985 and to Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in 2023). Bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae Banks) is a plant native of South Africa and world-widely used in urban afforestation. Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) is a evergreen tree native to South America with an edibl fruit. “A terra em tal maneira é graciosa” is part of the Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter to D. Manuel I, king of Portugal, when Portuguese first reached the Americas in 1500.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Environment_and_Climate_Change_(Brazil)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelitzia_reginae
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1978 | 20 | ||||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 97
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Bullion value: USD 12 499.26
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Actual gold weight: 2.894 oz
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