500 Escudos 13th. print

Vorderseitenbeschreibung	Violet and brown intaglio on multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of Portuguese chronicler and historian João de Barros (1496–1570) at right, with crowned shields superimposed on a global view at upper centre; flanking angel figures rendered in underprint at lower left and right. Issued as Chapa 13.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung	Violet and brown on multicolour underprint. Central vignette illustrates a scene evoking life in Portuguese India, with an armillary sphere — the so-called 'sphere of letters' associated with the teaching of reading — as the focal motif; two allegorical figures representing a man of science and letters and a merchant flank the composition, with naus (sailing ships) in the background.
Rückseitenlegende	500 Banco de Portugal dos feitos que os Portugueses fizeram nos descobrimentos e conquista dos mares e terras do oriente JOÃO DE BARROS - `DÉCADAS` (Translation: Bank of Portugal of the feats that the Portuguese accomplished in the discoveries and conquest of the seas and lands of the east João de Barros - 'Decades')
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