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1000 Meticais Bartholomeu Dias - São Cristovão
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 1000 Meticais (1000 MZM) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of the Portuguese caravel São Cristovão, the vessel commanded by explorer Bartholomeu Dias, rendered in finely engraved relief at centre, shown under full sail upon stylised waves. The ship's rigging, masts, and billowing sails are rendered with considerable detail. The curved legend BARTHOLOMEU DIAZ · SÃO CRISTOVÃO arcs along the upper periphery within a raised border, flanked by four-pointed stars, with the denomination 1000 METICAIS inscribed along the lower border. |
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Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, becoming the first European commander to do so, though he never reached India — a storm-driven passage and a near-mutiny forced his return. The São Cristóvão was one of the three vessels in that fleet, a square-rigged supply ship that was left behind in Mossel Bay rather than risk the unknown waters ahead. Mozambique's commemorative program from this period drew heavily on the Portuguese Age of Discovery, a historiographical choice that sits uneasily against the country's colonial past, which ended only in 1975.