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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BasSWarwick, post: 8644468, member: 75112&quot;]The street scene from 1905 is very nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Brazil I also have a 2003 - 1 Real.</p><p>Flag watermark.</p><p>(The earlier version 1994-1996 has the symbolic effigy as watermark)</p><p><br /></p><p>What is the comment written on the note? I cant decipher it</p><p><i>I have escaped the pit?</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Nice Reverse IMO</b></font></p><p>Print of a hummingbird (Amazilia lactea) feeding the young in the nest.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse is the Symbolic effigy of the Republic, interpreted in the form of sculpture. The effigy is a representation of a young woman wearing a crown of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_leaf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_leaf" rel="nofollow">bay leaves</a> in Roman style and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap" rel="nofollow">phrygian cap</a>. It is present in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory" rel="nofollow">allegoric</a> paintings and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptures" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptures" rel="nofollow">sculptures</a> displayed in government buildings throughout Brazil, and engraved on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real" rel="nofollow">Brazilian real</a> coins and banknotes. It was first used as a pro-Republican icon in the 19th century, inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" rel="nofollow">France</a>&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne" rel="nofollow">Marianne</a>. After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brazil_(1889%E2%80%931930)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brazil_(1889%E2%80%931930)" rel="nofollow">proclamation of the Republic</a> in 1889, it became an important symbol of the newly formed Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1517578[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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