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| Portugal currency notes 10 Escudos banknote of 1925, Eça de Queiroz. |
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| Portugal paper money 10 Escudos banknote of 1925 |
Portugal currency 10 Escudos banknote of 1925
Portuguese banknotes, Portuguese paper money, Portuguese bank notes, Portugal banknotes, Portugal paper money, Portugal bank notes.Obverse: Portrait of Eça de Queiroz - the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style, and Hieronymites Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos) located near the shore of the parish of Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
Printer: Waterlow & Sons Limited, London.
Size of note - 149 x 87 mm. Were issued 10 million of notes with the date of January 13, 1925. Were withdrawn from circulation on 31 December 1933 together with the notes of 5 and 2 $ 00, $ 50, replaced by silver coins.
Portugal banknotes - Portugal paper money
1924-1925 "Chapa 3 & 4" Issue
5 Escudos 10 Escudos 20 Escudos 50 Escudos 100 Escudos
500 Escudos 1000 Escudos
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Eça de Queirós (November 25, 1845 – August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. The London Observer critics rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Eça never officially rejected Catholicism, and in many of his private letters he even invokes Jesus and uses expressions typical of Catholics, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, and of Christianity in general (also Protestant churches) as is evident in some of his novels.
During his lifetime, the spelling was "Eça de Queiroz" and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works; the modern standard Portuguese spelling is "Eça de Queirós".
Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery, (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), is a monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome located near the shore of the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.
The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby Tower of Belém, in 1983.