200 Escudos Australia

Portugal's 200 Escudos commemorative series, struck through the 1990s, used the Australian theme to mark the 1995 bicentennial of the first Portuguese contact with the continent's southwest coast — specifically Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's 1792 voyage, though the deeper Portuguese claim traces to Cristóvão de Mendonça's disputed passage of around 1522. That earlier voyage remains unresolved in the historical record, making the commemorative's implied priority argument quietly contentious among Australian maritime historians.