1000 — One Thousand Escudos
The artwork
Front: Teófilo Braga (1843–1924), writer, republican polemicist and first President of the Portuguese Republic, engraved in three-quarter profile with his dates beside him. Behind him a Romanesque carved capital rises in pale green, and the small crowned shield of Portugal sits top left. "Banco de Portugal" and "1000 MIL ESCUDOS" in deep wine red, with chapa 12, the Lisbon date of 3 March 1994, and signatures for Governor and Administrator.
Back: The Romanesque capital again, this time given the whole stage: a winged siren flanked by a bird, its carved faces blunt and staring, credited in small type to the Museu Machado de Castro in Coimbra. To the left a circular device spells PORTUGAL around a cross; to the right, a second stone-carved scene washed in blue and gold. Star-and-cross tilework fills the field.
In circulation
One of the last escudo designs, dated here to March 1994 and circulating through the decade alongside the 1996 Pedro Álvares Cabral thousand. The escudo gave way to the euro in 2002, after which notes of this kind left tills for good and could only be exchanged at Banco de Portugal counters.
Details
- IssuerBanco de Portugal
- CurrencyEscudo
- DenominationOne Thousand Escudos
- Collectedon the Portugal journey, 1998
- SeriesChapa 12, dated Lisboa, 3 de Março de 1994
- SignatureTwo: O Governador and O Administrador