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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1955791, member: 57463&quot;]Portugal 2004. MAC 714. KM 754.&nbsp; 5 Euro UNESCO Patrimony commemorative.&nbsp; 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.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]343899[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]343900[/ATTACH]</p><p>Reverse top and Obverse bottom (I think).</p><p><br /></p><p>Portugal does not get a lot of US collector interest.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Portugal was neutral in World War One and WW2. Although a lot of good spy stories came out of Lisbon - <i>Rebecca; The Key to Rebecca</i> - it was not the site of much carnage, so it is easily forgotten.&nbsp; (<i>In Casablanca,</i> all the rich refugees were waiting for the plane to Lisbon.)&nbsp; When I was a kid, we had a super market encyclopedia that identified Antonio Salazaar as the &quot;fascist dictator&quot; of Portugal.&nbsp; Later, I learned that that was not true.&nbsp; 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.)&nbsp; Just sayin&#039;... beautiful coins, but, politically, not capable of making your blood boil or freeze.&nbsp; Just a place....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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