Portugal 50-ESCUDOS (KM636)¶
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Reverse: Fishing boat among COD FISH
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Obverse: Coat of arms and denomination
- Composition
- Copper-nickel
- Country
- Portugal
- Approx. Size
- 31.9mm
- Area
- Europe
- Animal Class
- Fish
- Species
- Cod
- KM#
- 636
Portugal has been fishing and trading cod since the fifteenth century, and their cod trade reached huge proportions. This coin depicts the early fishery days, with the fishing ship among a school of cod fish.
This coin was issued from 1986 through to 2000. Portugal switched to the euro in 2002.
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.
