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A 12-year-old boy who accurately computed the price of four coconuts at 35 cruzeiros each was later given the problem on paper.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2014

Kubitschek's final budget called for a potential deficit of 108 billion cruzeiros, or $490 million at the rapidly collapsing free rate of exchange.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so, people still deal in hundreds of cruzeiros for the most simple needs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hundreds of thousands of cruzeiros changed hands nightly under, and surrounded by those flags.

From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)