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8 Euro Football - The Keeper's Save
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 8 euro REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA 2004 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Portugal issued this coin as part of its official UEFA Euro 2004 host nation series — one of several denominations and themes struck by INCM to commemorate the tournament held across ten Portuguese stadiums that summer. The 8 euro face value was invented specifically for the series, having no practical circulation function; the denomination exists nowhere else in Portuguese monetary history.
The .500 fineness is notably low for a commemorative silver issue, a cost-containment decision that kept the coins accessible to a mass collector market rather than a bullion-focused one.