| Issuer | Portugal |
| Year | 1997-2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknotes |
| Value | 500 Escudos (500 PTE) |
| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 125 × 68 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
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| In circulation to | 28 February 2002 |
| Reference(s) | P#187 |
| Obverse description | Violet and brown on multicolor underprint. Portrait of portuguese chronicler and historian João de Barros (1496-1570) at right; crowned shields on global view at upper center; angels below at left and right in underprint. Chapa 13. |
| Reverse description | Violet and brown on multicolor underprint. Representation of a scene from life in India; the “sphere of letters”, intended for teaching reading, and adapting two figures, symbolizing a man of science and letters and a merchant, with naus as background. |
| Signature(s) | António José Fernandes de Sousa, Abel Moreira Mateus, Bernardino Manuel da Costa Pereira, Diogo José Paredes Leite de Campos, António Manuel Martins Pereira Marta, Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Cruz, Luís Manuel Moreira de Campos e Cunha, Vítor Manuel |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Portrait of João de Barros |
| Obverse lettering | Banco de Portugal
500 Escudos
LISBOA 11 DE SETEMBRO DE 1997
CH. 13 (Translation: Bank of Portugal 500 Escudos) |
| Reverse lettering | 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 made in the discoveries and conquest of the seas and lands of the east João de Barros - `Decades`) |
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| Catalog ID | 3433415780 |
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