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1000 Escudos Camões
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Value | 1000 Escudos (1000 PTE) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a finely modelled bust of the Portuguese Renaissance poet Luís de Camões facing slightly to the right, depicted in period costume with an elaborate ruffled collar and armour, consistent with 16th-century portraiture. The commemorative legend IV CENTENARIO DA MORTE DE CAMOES curves along the upper periphery, with the dates 1580 and 1980 flanking the bust at mid-field to mark the fourth centenary of his death. The engraver's signature J.P.ROQUE appears at the lower left, and the mint mark INCM with the year 81 (indicating the die preparation year) is inscribed at the lower right. A decorative beaded inner border frames the entire composition. |
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| Mint | Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda (INCM), Lisbon, Portugal |
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This issue marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Luís de Camões, whose exact birth date remains unknown to this day — a biographical gap that has occupied Portuguese scholars for centuries. Camões died in Lisbon in 1580, the same year Philip II of Spain absorbed Portugal into the Iberian Union, a dynastic accident that would suppress Portuguese independence for sixty years.
The Gomes reference places this within a well-documented commemorative program from the Banco de Portugal's silver issues of the early 1980s.