Whitman Expo
Diagonal red SPECIMEN ovpt front/back; horizontal red # ovpt lower left front; all-zero s/n 500 escudos Values
Details
Obverse: Portuguese text; holographic open book; poet Jorge Barbosa; embossed open book
Reverse: Portuguese text; quill in inkwell; lines from Barbosa’s poem, “Casebre” (struggle); Poilão Dam in the Santa Cruz municipal area on Santiago island (home of Jorge Barbosa); line drawing of women with baskets
Basic Information
GSID:
91417
Denomination:
500 escudos
Varieties and Classification
Variety:
Diagonal red SPECIMEN ovpt front/back; horizontal red # ovpt lower left front; all-zero s/n
