200 Escudos Father Luis Frois, Silver

Luís Fróis arrived in Japan in 1563 and spent the next three decades producing some of the most detailed European accounts of Japanese society, warfare, and religious politics ever written during the Sengoku period. His access was extraordinary — he held personal audiences with Oda Nobunaga on multiple occasions and witnessed the violent suppression of Buddhist institutions that Nobunaga used to consolidate power. The Jesuit mission he served ultimately collapsed under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1587 expulsion edicts, though Fróis remained in Japan illegally until his death in Nagasaki in 1597.

This coin is part of Portugal's extended commemorative series honoring figures of the Descobrimentos. The .925 silver KM#698a designation distinguishes it from a base-metal companion issue in the same series.