A Portuguese currency engraved with the great treaty between Portugal and Spain in the times of the Discoveries. Two great powers and with great technology at the maritime level at that time.
Characteristics
| Name | 200 escudos |
| Year | 1994 |
| Subject | 1498 Portuguese Discovery of India - India |
| Period | Portuguese Republic (1986 - 2001) |
| Currency type | Commemorative coin |
| Composition | Copper-Nickel |
| Board type | Round |
History
On 7 June 1494, the delegations of Portugal and Spain met in Tordesillas, near Valladolid, and agreed to establish a line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde, from pole to pole, which divided the Atlantic Ocean in two halves: all lands, discovered and undiscovered, to the west of that line would belong to the kings of Spain, and all to the east would belong to Portugal.
It was the solution to the crisis triggered by Christopher Columbus' trip, which took place two years earlier. His armada had arrived in the Antilles which, under the terms of the previous treaty, signed in Alcáçovas, were in the area reserved for Portugal. As neither party was willing to give in, it was necessary to reach an agreement to avoid a conflict of unpredictable consequences.
After a negotiating marathon, the parties agreed to draft a new treaty that would safeguard their interests: Spain retained the lands discovered by Colombo and Portugal reserved access to the Indian subcontinent, which it had been looking for some time through the recognition of the African coast.
The Tordesillas treaty was signed in the Spanish city with the same name and divided the world "discovered and undiscovered" into two parts, with the exploitation rights, of each, destined for Portugal and Spain.
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