Portugal 100 escudos 1981 - International Year of Disabled Persons

Portugal · 1981 · 100 escudos

Commemorative coinRare

€1.63estimate

990,000coins minted

N7165 KM625 GOMESR70

RAReference number RARA-F1YHT

Commemorative coin

International Year of Disabled Persons (1981)

The coin's story

This cupronickel 100 escudos coin is the larger of the two coins issued by Portugal for the International Year of Disabled Persons, proclaimed for 1981 by the United Nations. It honours Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, born in 1715 in Peniche into a family of crypto-Jews, who left around 1741 for Bordeaux in order to return to Judaism. In France, he devoted himself to teaching the deaf and mute. His “Observations sur les sourds muets”, published in Paris in 1762, are considered the first scientific work on the deaf and earned him a pension from Louis XV. He died in Paris in 1780. An institute founded in Lisbon in 1834, now part of the Casa Pia, bears his name. Both sides were engraved by Armando Matos Simões, and the coin was struck in 990,000 pieces for circulation.

ObverseThe Arms of Portugal

REPUBLICA·PORTUGUESA100$00

Design: The shield of Portugal, with its seven castles and five escutcheons.
Legend: REPÚBLICA·PORTUGUESA (Portuguese Republic).
Denomination: 100$00 (100 escudos).

ASEngraved by Armando Matos Simões

ReverseJacob Rodrigues Pereira

ANO INTERNACIONAL DO DEFICIENTE 1981TRABALHO REABILITAÇÃOJacobRodriguesPereira17151780M. SIMÕES incm82

Design: The portrait of Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, a pioneer of deaf education, with his name and dates (1715-1780).
Legend: ANO INTERNACIONAL DO DEFICIENTE 1981 (International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981).
Motto: TRABALHO REABILITAÇÃO (Work, rehabilitation).
Signature: M. SIMÕES, with the mark incm82 of the Lisbon Mint.

ASEngraved by Armando Matos Simões