500 Escudos 13th. print

Descrizione del dritto	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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Descrizione del rovescio	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.
Legenda del rovescio	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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