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2 1/2 Euros Cante Alentejano, Silver
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 21/2 Euros |
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| Obverse description | Three stylized male busts wearing traditional Alentejo hats are depicted in low relief across the left and center of the field, rendered in a contemporary artistic style by engraver João Duarte. To the right, the Portuguese coat of arms appears in small format above the denomination '2,50 EURO' inscribed in two lines. The legend 'PORTUGAL 2016' curves along the upper right, while the mint and engraver attribution 'INCM - JOÃO DUARTE' is incuse along the lower rim. |
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| Mint | INCM Lisbon, Portugal |
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Cante Alentejano, the polyphonic vocal tradition of Portugal's Alentejo region, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2014 — just two years before this issue. The practice is tied specifically to the rural working communities of the region, historically sung without instrumentation during agricultural labor, and its survival through the Salazar dictatorship was itself contested, the regime having co-opted folk traditions for nationalist propaganda while simultaneously suppressing the left-wing communities where Cante remained most alive.