4 CENTAVOS COIN - PORTUGAL - PERSONIFICATION OF REPUBLIC AND LIBERTY
(KM 566)
Date: A.D. 1917
Obverse: Portrait head left with phrygian or liberty cap and laurel (the Republic and Liberty)
Reverse: Text - REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA 4 CENTAVOS 1917
Engraver Obv: Alves de Rego
Engraver Rev: Francisco dos Santos
This coin was minted for Portugal, a country with a rich history that rests near the tip of the the Iberian Peninsula. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The coin was minted during an especially turbulent year during the already unstable short lived Portuguese First Republic. The Republic Lasted for 16 years following the fall of the monarchy in 1910, and before the coup d'état of 1926, the '28th of May Revolution' and the formation of the Estado Novo or 'new state' under the long dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar.
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