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Bank still wants notes of R$ 2 and 20 R$ this year

Turtle

Tamandua

Alligator

Mico

Gavião


PEDRO DANTAS
of the Leaf of S. Paulo, in Rio de Janeiro

The BC (Central banking) plans to launch in as the semester notes of R$ 2 and R$ 20. A study of the institution it indicated that, with the launching of new notes, it will be able to have a reduction of 32% in the use of ballots in transactions made with money.

It will have still, according to BC, a economy of R$ 8 million to the year in the expenses with the emission and the carrier of ballots.

" Today, to pay R$ 9 we use a ballot of R$ 5 and four of R$ 1. With the note of R$ 2, we will start to only use of R$ 5 and two of R$ 2. With this, we will facilitate I change ", said it Luis Enrique Cabral, head-aid of the Department of Currency it BC.

Cabral, the drawing of notes must follow ' the consecrated " standard since 1994, with the picture of the Republic in the front of the ballots and animals in the reverse.

The new development is the use of pictures of species in extinguishing. It enters the most quoted are the mico-lion-golden one, will guará it (wolf), the gavião-smoke and, the sea turtle, the tamanduá-flag alligator papo-yellow.

" It has two archetypes of the mico-lion-golden one, but we have that to study if it is good for the picture of the currency for having a mico printed in the note or if goes to generate jokes ", affirmed Cabral.

The BC still did not decide the note number of R$ 2 and R$ 20 that they will enter in circulation.

It sees other plastic ballots in other countries