20 Reals 2010, Brazil
| in Krause book | Number: 254 |
| Years of issue: | 2010 |
| Edition: | -- |
| Signatures: | Ministro da Fazenda: Guido Mantega, Presidente Do Banco Central Do Brasil: Alexandre Antonio Tombini |
| Serie: | No Serie |
| Specimen of: | 2003 |
| Material: | Cotton fiber |
| Size (mm): | 140 x 65 |
| Printer: | Casa da Moeda do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro |
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Description
Watermark:
The golden lion tamarin and denomination 20.
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Revers:
The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, mico-leão-dourado) also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion Tamarin is an endangered species with an estimated wild population of approximately 1,000 individuals spread between three different locations along southeastern Brazil, and a captive population maintained at approximately 490 individuals among 150 zoos.
Comments:
Since 1986, Brazilian bank notes contain the words “Deus Seja Louvado” (God Be Praised). In 2012, a federal prosecutor from Sao Paulo sought a court order to force the central bank to replace the nation’s entire supply of paper currency with bills that do not display these words, arguing that Brazil is a secular state and that this phrase violates the rights of non-Christians and nonbelievers. The Bank responded by stating that the preamble to the Brazilian constitution explicitly states that the democracy was formed “under the protection of God”, and that the state, “not being atheist, anticlerical or antireligious, can legitimately make a reference to the existence of a higher being, a divinity, as long as, in doing so, it does not make an allusion to a specific religious doctrine.”
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