100 Escudos (Madeira and Porto Santo) Coin

100 Escudos (Madeira and Porto Santo)

Country: Portugal
Denomination: 100 Escudos (100 PTE)
Year: 1989
Material: Copper-nickel
Weight: 16.5 g
Shape: Round
Diameter: 34 mm
Type: Circulating commemorative coin
Catalog list: portugal

Description:

Obverse

Portuguese coat of arms superimposed on the Cross of the Order of Christ (Real Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo). Value below

Reverse

Square rigged caravel on a map of the archipelago showing Madeira below and Porto Santo above. Dates of the Portuguese discoveries around (the islands were already known of the Greeks and Phenicians), date of the coin below.

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