300 Réis

Features

Issuer	Brazil
Period	Republic of the United States of Brazil (1889-1967)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1938-1942
Value	300 Réis
Currency	Real (1799-1942)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	4.4 g
Diameter	21 mm
Thickness	1.7 mm
Shape	Scalloped
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 5377
References	KM# 546 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 52 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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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.

Script: Latin

Lettering: GETULIO VARGAS

Engraver: Leopoldo Alvez Campos

Reverse

Denomination above date encircled by Marajoara decoration collar.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BRASIL
300
RÉIS
1940

Translation:
Brazil
300
Réis
1940

Engraver: Benedito de Araújo Ribeiro

Edge

Fluted

Mint

Mint of Brazil (Casa da Moeda do Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1694-date)

Comments

The Marajoara or Marajó was a native nation that inhabited the Marajó Island and the Amazon river in the Pre-Columbian era.
Coin with higher copper cast 1942

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Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
1938	12 080 000	$ 0.39	$ 0.58	$ 0.58	$ 0.80	$ 1.20	$ 1.20		66%
1940	8 124 000	$ 0.43	$ 0.87	$ 0.91	$ 0.99	$ 2.50	$ 2.50		55%
1942	2 020 000	$ 0.46	$ 0.46	$ 0.95	$ 1.10	$ 1.30	$ 2.80	Has a yellow cast due to higher copper content	27%

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