![PTCoins.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hTQO1pb.jpg) In these types of articles I will show my collection of Portuguese coins and the rest of the world. As in Portugal we are in lockdown and I can't travel I decided to start showing my collection of old coins.

Characteristics

Name	100 escudos
Year	1988
Subject	I Series - Discovering Africa: Bartolomeu Dias
Period	Portuguese Republic (1986 - 2001)
Currency type	Commemorative
Composition	Cupro-Nickel
Board type	Round

_{Portuguese Coin - I Series - Discovering Africa - Bartolomeu Dias 1988} Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese navigator who discovered the passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean bypassing the Cape of Storms in the extreme south of Africa. Bartolomeu Dias was born in Portugal, around 1450. Descended from a family of navigators, he acquired knowledge of mathematics and astronomy. The navigator lived at a time when Portugal was at the forefront of the expansion of Europe that began in 1415 with the taking of Ceuta in North Africa.

Currency value in Euros

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