Portuguese Coin Commemorating 400 Years of Discovery Of India

tell that to Bjarni Herjólfsson and Leif Ericson who visited the continent of North America about 500 years before. Certainly the fact that a continent existed might have filtered its way to these other Europeans who seemed to think things did not exist until they found them. But again, all coins are propaganda, this is the only point I was making. Whether you agree with the message or not is not an issue I care to discuss. If we were to debate every message on every coin either real or implied it would just be a bunch of bickering.

 

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Hmm, were they on their way to India? I don't think so. But sure, coins are a means of representation, a way to show how a government views itself or its country. As for the Vasco da Gama commem, since his voyages established a trade route that for a while was practically a Portuguese monopoly, it does make some sense to state that commercially he "discovered" India ...

Christian

 

And then the empire stoleded it. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Portuguese not still have extensive trade routes / trading posts around the south and east coasts of India in the early 20th century?

 

they ruled goa for 450 years if that makes you happy

 

I don't know until when the Portuguese ruled in Goa but the last year Portuguese India coins minted was 1961. Thats almost 14 years from 1947, India's independence from British rule.

 

Yes Very Happy !

It allowed Jews to Escape...

Ruben

 

you know what the problem is...well ther are two problems.


First NOBODY CARES

Secondly PORTUGAL DIDN'T DISCOVER INDIA 400 YEAR AGO. The were trying to get there all along!

Does anyone know any basic world history around here?

Ruben:hammer:

 

Yep: "After India gained independence from the British in 1947, Portugal refused to negotiate with India on the transfer of sovereignity of their Indian enclaves. On 12 December 1961, the Indian army commenced with Operation Vijay resulting in the annexation of Goa, Damman and Diu into the Indian union." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa#History So 1961 being the last year for those coins is not merely accidental ...

Christian

 

i do but then i have so many problems sigh

 

Says who?

Correct. See numerous previous messages in this topic.

Christian

 

Christian (what if my name was Jewboy), are you keeping up with the board this morning or are you too busy trying to substitute Wikipedia for a cheap version of a your expense college education. If your going to quote Wikipedia the least you can do is donate 50 bucks to them so that they can keep the darn thing running.

Ruben

PS - and with that Note: I'm OUT OF HERE until maybe tomorrow...if I'm not banned...

Bye...

 

for the love of god i wont get a wink of leep tonight you didnt answer my question

 

Thanks for your comment; guess it's best not to "touch" this topic any more. By the way, I am not religious, but at least over here we do not pick our first names ourselves ...

(Edit) Ah. OK. IC.

Christian

 

promise??

 

This thread went downhill fast.

 

Most of the threads do after Spock posts

 

here is another reason why you should not quit school. it should have read after the kid posts but...

 

What?