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Description:
Obverse
Portuguese coat of arms superimposed on the Cross of the Order of Christ (Real Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo). Value below.
Reverse
Square rigged caravel on a map of the archipelago showing Madeira below and Porto Santo above. Dates of the Portuguese discoveries around (the islands were already known of the Greeks and Phenicians), date of the coin below.
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