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500 Escudos Eça de Queiroz, Bimetallic foil silver and gold
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 17.1 g |
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| Reverse description | The gold ring and silver centre together present a bold, modernist stylised portrait of the novelist Eça de Queiroz in right-facing profile, executed in an angular, cubist-influenced artistic style designed by Paulo Guilherme. The legend 'ECA DE QUEIROZ' arcs prominently along the upper left field. The centennial dates '1900' and '2000' appear in the lower centre, flanking the exergue. The engraver's name 'PAULO-GUILHERME' and the mint mark 'INCM' are inscribed in the lower right field. |
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| Reverse lettering | EÇA DE QUEIROZ 1900 2000 INCM PAULO-GUILHERME INCM |
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Eça de Queiroz died in Paris in August 1900, and this coin marks the centenary of that death — not his birth, a distinction worth noting given how frequently commemorative programs conflate the two. The novelist had spent much of his adult life as a Portuguese consul abroad, in Havana, Bristol, and finally Paris, a biographical irony given how savagely his fiction dissected Portuguese provincial insularity. The bimetallic foil construction — silver centre, gold ring — was a technically ambitious format INCM deployed selectively for prestige commemoratives at the turn of the millennium.