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| Issuer | Azores |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | TRIAL · ESSAI · PRUEBA · MUSTER 20 |
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| Additional information |
The Azores, as an autonomous region of Portugal, has no independent monetary authority and never issued circulating euro coinage. This 2005 piece is a pattern — struck for collectors and political symbolism rather than any sanctioned monetary purpose. Portugal itself adopted the euro in 2002, rendering a regional "issue" from the Azores purely notional from the outset.