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Portugal 2000 Escudos 1991

Item Code: PT-186

Obverse: Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1451 – 29 May 1500); Astrolabe. Reverse: Sailing ship near the
Cape of Good Hope in 1488; Stylised map of Europe and Africa; Sextant, compass, direction corrector; Mechanical
celestial globe with armillary sphere on a chicken foot stand; Cross at Dias Point, near Lüderitz, Namibia.
Watermark: Bartolomew Diaz. Author: Luis Filipe de Abreu Inv. Date of Issue: 23 May 1991. Printer: British
American Bank Note Company, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Total Emission: Just over 104 million banknotes.

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Original Size: 168 x 75 mm

Texts: Banco de Portugal; Dois Mil Escudos; Two Thousand Escudos; Lisboa, 23 de Maio de 1991.
Cabo da Boa Esperança.

Eu sou aquele oculto e grande Cabo
A quem chamais vós outros Tormentório,
Que nunca a Ptolomeu, Pompônio, Estrabo,
Plínio e quantos passaram fui notório.
Aqui toda a Africana costa acabo
Neste meu nunca visto Promontório,
Que pera o Pólo Antártico se estende,
A quem vossa ousadia tanto ofende.

Excerpt from "Os Lusiadas", Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões.

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