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20 Escudos Pattern
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Lisboa |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 20 Escudos (20 PTE) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by a rectangular device rendered in a modernist brick or mosaic pattern, composed of rows of raised rectangular elements. The denomination 20$00 is inscribed in stylised numerals above the central device, and the date 1970 appears below in spaced numerals. The word ENSAIO (trial) is incuse in the left field, and the engraver's credit AMÉRICO GRAV. appears in small lettering along the lower rim. |
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Pattern coinage from Casa da Moeda de Lisboa in this period reflects the Salazar regime's final years and the transitional pressures that followed his incapacitation in 1968. Portugal was simultaneously managing colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau — a fiscal drain that made circulating metal composition a live political question. Whether this copper-nickel trial was exploring a cheaper alternative to the existing silver-bearing issues or anticipating post-colonial monetary adjustments is not fully documented, but the timing is pointed. The Gomes reference places it among a small series of rejected trials that never reached circulation.