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1/4 Euro Antero de Quental
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 1/4 Euro |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold, stylized portrait of the Portuguese poet and philosopher Antero de Quental rendered in a modernist linear style, with the face depicted in abstracted outlines occupying the central and right portions of the field. The inscription 'ANTERO DE QUENTAL' curves along the upper portion of the coin, with the subtitle 'POETA · FILÓSOFO' below it in smaller lettering. The year of issue '2013' is inscribed vertically along the right edge of the field, while the poet's birth and death years '1842 · 1891' appear along the lower left, flanking the portrait. The overall design is the work of sculptor and medallist José Aurélio, reflecting a contemporary artistic treatment characteristic of Portuguese commemorative coinage. |
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Antero de Quental — poet, philosopher, and one of the central figures of the 1871 Conferências do Casino in Lisbon — took his own life in 1891 in Ponta Delgada, the city of his birth. The Conferências, a series of public lectures he helped organize, were shut down by government order after just two sessions on grounds of irreligion, a suppression that became a defining episode in Portuguese 19th-century intellectual history. This issue marks the 120th anniversary of his death.