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200 Escudos Treaty of Tordesilhas
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA 200 ESCUDOS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in June 1494 between Portugal and Castile under papal arbitration, divided the undiscovered world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands — a line negotiated specifically to protect Portuguese claims to a Brazil not yet officially encountered. Whether Lisbon already knew of South American landmass when pressing for that particular longitude remains one of the more durable debates in Iberian historiography.
This coin was issued on the treaty's 500th anniversary.