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200 Escudos China, Silver
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| In circulation to | 28 February 2002 |
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| Reverse description | At left, a detailed cartographic rendering of the Chinese coastline with the Temple of Heaven in Beijing prominently depicted. To the right, a Portuguese caravel under full sail faces a Chinese junk, commemorating the first Portuguese maritime contact with China in 1513. The legend 中國·1513·CHINA is inscribed across the field, incorporating both Chinese characters and the Latin toponym, uniting the two cultures referenced by the issue. |
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| Mintage | 1996 - - 1996 INCM - Gomes#R119.03 - Proof - 7,961 |
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Issued as part of Portugal's long-running commemorative program marking its historical ties to China ahead of the 1999 Macau handover, this silver piece belongs to a parallel series that ran alongside a base-metal circulation strike — the "a" suffix in KM#690a denoting the precious-metal collector variant. Portugal had administered Macau since the 1550s, making it both the first and last European colonial presence on the Chinese coast.