200 Escudos Príncipe Perfeito

Obverse © A. Monge da Silva (CC0)

Features

Issuer	Portugal
Ruling authority	Third Republic (1974-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1994
Value	200 Escudos (200 PTE)
Currency	Escudo (1911-2001)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	21.1 g
Diameter	36 mm
Thickness	2.8 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	28 February 2002
Number	N# 7194
References	KM# 673 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes). , Gomes# R 113.01 Alberto Gomes; 1991. Moedas Portuguesas. Associação Numismatica de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.

Commemorative issue

D. João II

Series: V-Portuguese Discoveries

Obverse

Center divided into 4 quarters. Top left and low right: wavy lines symbolising navigation, lower left: the Portuguese coat of arms, top right: the personal arms of the King John II, "a pelican in her piety" (mother pelican wounding her chest to feed its young) with the moto "Pela Lei e Pela Grei" ("by Law and by the People" in Old Portuguese. Rim: name of the country and value, circle of pearls.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA
POLÁ LEI E POLÁ GREI
INCM · 200 ESCUDOS · E.BYRNE

Engraver: Eloísa Byrne

Reverse

Portrait of Joao II of Portugal wearing the crown and holding a small ship, a 16th century lateen-rigged three-masted caravel. Rim: the name of the king and the year of his death, 1495.

Script: Latin

Lettering: D. JOÁO II : PRINCIPE PERFEITO : 1495·1995

Engraver: Eloísa Byrne

Edge

Milled

Mint

incm	Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, Lisbon, Portugal

Comments

The king John II (João II, in Portuguese) got nickname Perfect Prince posthumously.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1994) incm			950 000				$ 2.30	$ 2.60	$ 3.20	$ 3.50

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