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Not considering inflation, one modern Brazilian real is equivalent to 2,750,000,000,000,000,000 times the old real, that is, 2.75 × 10 18 (2.75 quintillion) réis. Before leaving Brazil in 1821, the Portuguese royal court withdrew all the bullion currency it could from banks in exchange for what would become worthless bond notes; [12] [13]
The Brazilian real (pl. reais; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is the central bank and the issuing authority. The real replaced the cruzeiro real in 1994. As of April 2019, the real was the twentieth most traded currency. [1]
' National Monetary Council ') decided the national currency could once again be called "cruzeiro". [6] The new currency would have parity with the "old" cruzeiro at a rate of 1000 cruzeiros = 1 cruzeiro novo. Banknotes in the values of 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10000 old cruzeiros received stamps with the values of 1, 5, 10, 50 Centavos ...
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Until 1747 the Brazilian real was the same as the Portuguese real, with the gold peça of 13.145 g fine gold worth 6,400 réis or 6 400. After that date, however, the Brazilian real started to become a separate currency unit when the value of the peça was raised by 10% in Brazil (but not in Portugal) to 7,040 réis. [2]
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