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100 escudos Cabral, Brésil
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, a portrait vignette of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral set against the Portuguese coat of arms as underprint. To the right, a terrestrial globe and a period sailing vessel appear in intaglio-style relief. The denomination numeral 100 is repeated within the design alongside the issuing bank title. |
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| Protection description | Watermark; transparent polymer window integrated into the note substrate |
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This note commemorates Pedro Álvares Cabral, the Portuguese navigator credited with the European discovery of Brazil in 1500 — a figure politically loaded enough that modern Brazilian historiography has long complicated the "discovery" framing. Portugal issuing a collector piece in 2017 on polymer, themed around Brazil, is a statement about Lusophone cultural ties rather than any monetary function; the Banco de Portugal's collector series has leaned heavily into Age of Discovery subjects since the 1990s.
Franck Medina, a Paris-based designer who has worked across multiple European collector issues, produced the artwork. The polymer substrate here is almost certainly sourced from De La Rue or CCL Secure, though the print contract details are not publicly confirmed.