Portuguese Coins - New World - America

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Portugal is a country with a lot of history, as we are a very old country and because of that we have many stories to count. Portuguese commemorative coins record some people and events that were very important for Portugal.

Characteristics

Name 200 escudos
Year 1992
Subject New World - America
Period Portuguese Republic (1986 - 2001)
Currency type Commemorative coin
Composition Copper-Nickel
Board type Round

New World - America

History

Was the American Continent, or simply America, discovered by a sea expedition led by the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus, hired by the kings of Spain? Well, the answer to that question is usually yes. In fact, it was Colombo who was responsible for finding a new continent a "new world" and, above all, ensuring to the Spaniards the future colonization of these new discovered lands. But it is necessary, however, to make a warning:

Although the credits for the discovery of America fell on the figure of Columbus, mainly due to the success of Spanish colonization, another expedition had already arrived in our continent about five hundred years before the Genoese navigator. Led by a warrior named Leif Eriksson, a Viking sea expedition arrived on American. The Vikings set up a settlement on the island of Newfoundland, now owned by Canada a settlement that, according to archaeologists and historians, didn't. It lasted a long time!

Unlike the limited nautical resources that the Vikings had, Cristóvão Colombo had at his disposal the best navigation in his time, a time when the Iberian Peninsula became a strategic place for this. Portugal was the pioneer with regard to the development of navigation techniques and the construction of ships capable of facing the overseas, that is, the oceans. Circumnavigations around the coast of the African continent attested to Portuguese nautical technology.

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