Ponte de Lima is Portugal's oldest municipality, having received its first municipal charter in 1125 from Queen Teresa of Portugal — a document that predates the nation of Portugal itself, granted just nine years before Afonso Henriques proclaimed the kingdom. The town's continuous chartered existence across nine centuries is the precise reason it anchors this commemorative issue.
The 7½ euro denomination was introduced by the INCM in 2019 specifically for silver collector issues of this type, priced to sit between the base-metal circulating commemoratives and the heavier, costlier 10-euro series.
Ponte de Lima is Portugal's oldest municipality, having received its first municipal charter in 1125 from Queen Teresa of Portugal — a document that predates the nation of Portugal itself, granted just nine years before Afonso Henriques proclaimed the kingdom. The town's continuous chartered existence across nine centuries is the precise reason it anchors this commemorative issue.
The 7½ euro denomination was introduced by the INCM in 2019 specifically for silver collector issues of this type, priced to sit between the base-metal circulating commemoratives and the heavier, costlier 10-euro series.