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Country: Portugal, Portuguese Republic
Capital: Lisbon
Currency: Euro
Numeric code: 978
Alphabetic code: EUR
The official name of Portugal since 1910 Portuguese Republic. It is located in the West of Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. Land border Portugal has with Spain. South-West the country is washed by the Atlantic ocean.
2002 for Portugal, as for many other European countries, was marked by the transfer of cash payments in Euro (100 cents). Up to this point the catalogue of coins of Portugal represented his own money: Escudo denomination in 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 200 units. Portuguese Escudo was divided into 100 centavos. However, the coin has been long abandoned. Last centavos country released in 1979.
Appeared Escudo in 1911. In 1932 was released 2½, 5 and 10 Escudos silver. The release of the first two denominations ceased in 1951, but was resumed again in 1965 – only to have the copper-Nickel alloy. Coin 10 Escudos lasted until 1955, however, the percentage of silver in it dropped significantly. Buy coins of Portugal, minted prior to this period can be today - on the special sites for those interested in ancient coins.
In the seventies of the last century, 10 and 25 Escudos steel copper-Nickel. And in 1986 the entire series of coins has been updated: 1, 5 and 10 Escudos minted from a Nickel-brass alloy, 20 and 50 from copper and Nickel. Bimetallic 100 and 200 Escudos appeared last in 1989 -1991. More such coins were not issued.
The price of the coins of Portugal, emerged from the circulation of money. Year of manufacture, number of copies, the material and, finally, the safety have a direct impact on the value of Portuguese coins.
