Portuguese coat of arms superimposed on the Cross of the Order of Christ (Real Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo). Value below
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Latin
Obverse lettering
REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA
· 100 ESCUDOS ·
Reverse description
Square rigged caravel on a map of the archipelago showing Madeira below and Porto Santo above. Dates of the Portuguese discoveries around (the islands were already known of the Greeks and Phenicians), date of the coin below.
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
1420 MADEIRA PORTO SANTO 1419
AVE MARIA
INCM
ISABEL C ✠ 1989 ✠ F.BRANCO
