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200 Escudos Columbus and Portugal

Issuer Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
Year 1991
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Currency Escudo (1911-2001)
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Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering COLOMBO E PORTUGAL 1476 1485
(Translation: Columbus and Portugal 1476 1485)
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Portugal's long series of commemorative 200 escudos pieces launched in the late 1980s was timed deliberately to build toward 1992 — the quincentenary of Columbus's first voyage. This 1991 issue sits one year ahead of that anniversary, framing the Portuguese role in the Atlantic exploration narrative that Spain had largely dominated in popular memory. The political subtext was real: Lisbon had been quietly insistent that Columbian-era seamanship owed its foundations to Portuguese navigational advances, a claim with genuine historiographical weight.

The Gomes reference R103.01 indicates the first die variety of this type — worth noting for collectors working the full commemorative run.

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