Dark-brown on multicolor underprint. Portrait of Queen St. Isabel (1271-1336), wife of King D. Diniz, canonized in 1625, according to a painting in the Stadt Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf.
Reverse description
Dark-brown on multicolor underprint. Image of an old engraving from Coimbra.
Signature(s)
José da Silva Lopes, Abel António Pinto dos Reis, António José Nunes Loureiro Borges, Artur Eduardo Brochado dos Santos Silva, José da Silva Lopes, Emílio Rui da Veiga Peixoto Vilar, Joaquim Cavaqueiro Mestre, Luís Carlos de Assunção Braz Teixei
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
Queen St. Isabel
Obverse lettering
50
BANCO DE PORTUGAL
CINQUENTA ESCUDOS
OURO
LISBOA, 28 DE FEVEREIRO DE 1964
RAÍNHA SANTA ISABEL (Translation: 50 Bank of Portugal Fifty Escudos Gold Lisbon, February 28, 1964 Queen Saint Elizabeth)
Reverse lettering
Illustris Ciuitatis Conimbriae in
Lusitania
ad flumen Illundam effigies
50
CINQUENTA ESCUDOS
OURO
BANCO DE PORTUGAL (Translation: Illustration of the celebrated city of Coimbra in Lusitania on the Illunda Fifty Escudos Gold Bank of Portugal)