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1/4 Euro Fernando Pessoa
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | INCM Lisbon, Portugal |
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Portugal's quarter-euro bullion series, launched in the early 2000s, was designed partly as an accessible entry point into gold ownership — small enough in weight to be affordable, yet tied to nationally significant cultural figures. Pessoa is an obvious choice for that roster, though the selection carries a quiet irony: he spent much of his life in deliberate obscurity, publishing almost nothing under his own name during his lifetime. The bulk of his work was discovered only after his death in 1935, crammed into a now-famous trunk containing roughly 27,000 manuscript pages.