Post your Portugal Coins

Here are 2 Portugal Coins. Feel free to post yours!

1797 5 Ries




1822 40 Reis

 

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Here ya go...

 

Brg5658 that is a beauty in both style and quality!!!

 

Nice coins, fellas ...

=> all I have to add is this 72 year old Portuguese note (my sweet Portuguese wife thinks that it is very cool)

 

1799 10 Reis

 

Here's a XX Reis 1874 NGC MS-64BN

 

This obverse is beautiful in hand. It's pretty cool what can happen to a silver coin.
1891 200 Reis

 

IMO this Portugal 1915 10 Centavos is pretty.

 

I think Portuguese coins have really nice designs but they don't seem to get much collector interest.

 

I forgot I had this one from Portugal -- not sure how since it has a HORSE! I really like this one year coin design.

 

Portugal 2004. MAC 714. KM 754. 5 Euro UNESCO Patrimony commemorative. 0.500 fine silver 0.2250 ASW. Commemorates Church of Christ in Tomar. Originally founded by the Knights Templar in 1344. The reverse design is the Chapter House Window of 1513.


Reverse top and Obverse bottom (I think).

Portugal does not get a lot of US collector interest. Outside of Providence, Rhode Island, where do you find Portuguese people? It is a small, poor nation, saddled with colonies that it finally got rid of because it could not protect, such as Goa and Angola. Portugal was neutral in World War One and WW2. Although a lot of good spy stories came out of Lisbon - Rebecca; The Key to Rebecca - it was not the site of much carnage, so it is easily forgotten. (In Casablanca, all the rich refugees were waiting for the plane to Lisbon.) When I was a kid, we had a super market encyclopedia that identified Antonio Salazaar as the "fascist dictator" of Portugal. Later, I learned that that was not true. Salazaar was an economist who worked largely behind the scenes to keep Portugal financially afloat. (Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, Princess Beatrix earned a doctorate in economics for a thesis that outlined how to ditch their colonies by making them financially independent.) Just sayin'... beautiful coins, but, politically, not capable of making your blood boil or freeze. Just a place....

 

Portugal was in fact involved in the First World War (part of the bargain they had then with Britain), mainly in the fields of Flanders (Battle of the Lys, for example).
Concerning the other issues of fascism during Salazar's era, I won't be discussing them as, at the end of the day, it is still not easy to classify the regime back then. It was a dictatorship, yes.
But the country has a rich history with great coins, right from the 12th century until these days. For example the coin that brg5658 showed here, represents the battle that lead to the independence to Portugal in 1143 (Batalha de Ourique in 1139).

Here's on of the early coins of the 12th century:


Or a gold coin from 1830:

 

Great coins everyone!
Like the note Steve!

 

Republic.
10 & 50 centavos

 

Republic.
1, 4 and 20 centavos.

 

Portugal was a big player in the world for a long time, and their coinage tends to celebrate that history, which is part of what I like about their coins. There's a great series of 200 escudos coins celebrating their tradition of exploration that I've posted in an earlier thread.

 

Kingdom.
Manuel II the King (1908-1910).
5, 100 & 200 reis.

 

Carlos I (1889-1908) the Martyr.
5, 20, 100 & 500 reis.

 

Luis I (1861-1889).
XX reis 1883.

 

... in the US maybe.

Christian