Portugal

2017

Commemorative coin

150 years of the birth of writer Raul Brandão

Official Journal of the European Union

The design shows the face of Raul Brandão. At the left side is the inscription RAUL BRANDÃO and underneath the years ‘1867’ and ‘2017’. At the bottom right is the inscription of the country of issuance ‘PORTUGAL’ and at the top right is the name of the author ‘LUIS FILIPE DE ABREU’ followed by the mintmark ‘INCM’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

The coin commemorates the 150th birthday of the Portuguese writer Raul Brandão (1867-1930). The main themes of his work are death and the isolation of man, combined with the pantheism typical of Portugal. He also describes the meagre life and the doomed worlds of the fishermen, peasants and common people, whose chronicler he saw himself as. With his book As ilhas desconhecidas - Notas e paisagens (The Unknown Islands - Records and Landscapes), published in 1926, he shaped the image of the Azores in Europe.

Edge lettering

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