Portugal 25-ESCUDOS (KM619)¶
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Reverse: COD
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Obverse: Coat of arms
- Composition
- Copper-nickel
- Country
- Portugal
- Approx. Size
- 28.5mm
- Area
- Europe
- Animal Class
- Fish
- Species
- Cod
- KM#
- 619
Portugal has been fishing and trading cod since the fifteenth century, and their cod trade reached huge proportions. It is claimed that there are more than 365 ways to prepare cod, enough for a different recipe each day of the year. (Unless you eat it for both lunch and dinner, which yours truly did while visiting Newfoundland in 2007.)
This is an FAO coin, issued in 1983 only.
Portugal¶
- Area
- Europe
The Portuguese Republic is the western-most country in Europe, situated on the Iberian Peninsula beside Spain. Settled since prehistoric times, Portugal started the Age of Discovery (also known as the Age of Exploration) in the early fifteenth century, and continued to systematically explore the world (and build an empire) through to the mid-sixteenth century.Today, Portugal ranks among the top countries in the world for quality of life and peacefullness.
