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500 Escudos 13th. print
| Issuer | Banco de Portugal |
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| Year | 1997-2000 |
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| Value | 500 Escudos (500 PTE) |
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| Obverse description | Violet and brown intaglio on multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of Portuguese chronicler and historian João de Barros (1496–1570) at right, with crowned shields superimposed on a global view at upper centre; flanking angel figures rendered in underprint at lower left and right. Issued as Chapa 13. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 Banco de Portugal dos feitos que os Portugueses fizeram nos descobrimentos e conquista dos mares e terras do oriente JOÃO DE BARROS - `DÉCADAS` (Translation: Bank of Portugal of the feats that the Portuguese accomplished in the discoveries and conquest of the seas and lands of the east João de Barros - 'Decades') |
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The 13th print of this series represents the tail end of escudo-denominated currency in Portugal — the 07.11.2000 signature date, bearing Vítor Constâncio's name as Governor, places those issues within eighteen months of the escudo's effective replacement by euro banknotes in circulation. Constâncio would later serve two terms as Vice-President of the European Central Bank, a detail that lends the 2000 signing date a certain irony.
The breadth of signature combinations across the 1997 dates — six different second signatories paired with Fernandes de Sousa — reflects the full Board of Directors composition at that moment, a routine but catalogically significant variable that creates distinct collectible variants within a single print run.