Portugal 500 Escudos banknote 1992 Mouzinho da Silveira

Portugal Banknotes 500 Escudos banknote 1992 Mouzinho da Silveira

Bank of Portugal - Banco de Portugal

Obverse: Portrait of Mouzinho da Silveira; stylised tree and sunshine;
Reverse: Agriculture.
Watermark: Mouzinho da Silveira.
Original Size: 156 x 74 mm.
Emission: 342 638 000 notes.
Date of Issue: 7 October 1988.
Withdrawn from circulation: 30 April 1998.

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         100 Escudos          500 Escudos          1000 Escudos       
          2000 Escudos       5000 Escudos, António Sérgio de Sousa       
5000 Escudos, Antero de Quental       10000 Escudos

Mouzinho da Silveira
José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira (Castelo de Vide, 12 July 1780 – Lisbon, 4 April 1849) was a statesman, jurist and Portuguese politician, as well as one of the most important personalities of the Liberal Revolution of 1820, responsible for legislation and administrative reforms that shaped Portuguese institutions, taxation and justice in the period after the Constitutional Charter. Imprisoned after the Abrilada, he turned one of the most uncompromising defenders of the Charter, remaining in exile for several years after 1828, and only returning in 1834 to defend his legislative agenda, exiling himself once again in 1836. In the final ten years of his life, Mouzinho da Silveira retired from public life, before his untimely death.