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500 Escudos 10th. print
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1966-1979 |
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| Printer | Royal Joh. Enschedé (Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Johan Enschede en Zonen), Haarlem, Netherlands (1703-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette is an intaglio portrait of Dom João II, thirteenth King of Portugal (1455–1495), rendered after a painting held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The Portuguese Coat of Arms appears at upper left, with the note's denomination and issuer legends printed in letterpress. The plate number designation 'Chapa 10' identifies this as the tenth printing of the series. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE PORTUGAL QUINHENTOS ESCUDOS OURO LISBOA, 6 DE SETEMBRO DE 1979 (Translation: Bank of Portugal Five Hundred Gold Escudos Lisbon, 6 September 1979) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries intaglio vignettes of two figures drawn from the Monument to the Discoveries — the navigator Pero de Alenquer and the cartographer Pedro Nunes — set against a background reproducing a 16th-century cartographic map of Africa, evoking Portugal's Age of Exploration. The denomination and issuer inscription appear in letterpress within a guilloche underprint. |
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