1000 — One Thousand Escudos
The artwork
Front: Pedro Álvares Cabral in profile, helmeted and bearded, printed in deep violet against a gold ground of Manueline rope-work, armillary spheres and crosses of the Order of Christ. Fine vertical lettering beside him reads PEDRO ÁLVARES CABRAL and BRASIL 1500. The gothic heading is banco de Portugal, with LISBOA 31 DE OUTUBRO DE 1996 above the Governor's and Vice-Governor's signatures, and a broad brown 1000 panel at the left.
Back: A violet carrack under full sail stands off a coast lettered TERRA BRASILIS, drawn in the manner of a sixteenth-century illuminated map: macaws and parrots perched among fronds, a jaguar and a monkey below, and an armorial shield to the right. Along the foot runs Pêro Vaz de Caminha's line about seeing nothing but land and trees, land that seemed to us very extensive.
In circulation
Introduced in 1996 as part of the Banco de Portugal's last escudo family, marking the Discoveries, and printed with later dates into the closing years of the decade. It circulated until the euro replaced the escudo in cash on 1 January 2002, the notes losing legal tender status that February.
Details
- IssuerBanco de Portugal
- CurrencyEscudo
- DenominationOne Thousand Escudos
- Collectedon the Portugal journey, 1998
- SeriesChapa 13, dated Lisboa 31 de Outubro de 1996
- SignatureO Governador and O Vice-Governador