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Much better, Dorado!

Excellent add, hfjacinto!

First the envelope:

Today's note is:

Pick: 180c(1) 04.10.1989
Signatures: Jose Alberto Tavares Moreira & Abel António Pinto dos Reis.

On the obverse, Jose Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira (12 July 1780 in Castelo de Vide - 4 April 1849 in Lisbon) 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 became 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. On the reverse you have a sheaf of grain, grapes and sunflowers.

The Note:




And while I drink lots of wine when in Portugal, I don't have any pictures of the wine growing region. So here are some pictures of Portugal.

No envelopes today, it was plain and had no stamps

But we do have a note. Today's note is Pick 185c(3)
16.05.1991
signatures: Jose Alberto Tavares Moreira & Jose de Matos Torres

From a print of 12 680 000

On the Obverse, you have António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 - 13 December 1955), who was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy—better known today as lobotomy, for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Walter Rudolf Hess).

He held academic positions, wrote many medical articles and also served in several legislative and diplomatic posts in the Portuguese government. In 1911 he became professor of neurology in Lisbon until his retirement in 1944. While at the time the treatment was heralded, today the treatment is viewed negatively.

The reverse of the note shows the Nobel prize and a modern reproduction of the Caduceus. Which people associate with Medicine, but in reality the medical symbol should be the Rod of Asclepius.

The 10,000 escudos was the highest denomination issued by Portugal with a value of around $75 in 1991.

Nice adds guys & great background shots of Portugal "hfjacinto."

Here's a 50 Franc note from a country that lasted a mere 2 years. Yes, the tiny landlocked nation of Rwanda-Burundi existed from 1960 into 1963 after much turmoil between Belgium and its inhabitants (the Tutsi & Hutu). Things culminated in an awful massacre during the early 90's (which many of us older folk remember on the news). The media portrayed this mass killing of 1/2 to 1 million people as a tribal war but over time it was since revealed that there were much more sinister motives behind the genocide of the Tutsi minority.

Anyway, here's the note, which is a bit of an ugly duckling but I can honestly say looks much better in person than from the scans which seem to highlight the slight staining:

My Fijian earlies have expanded. Discussing these on the Fiji coins and note thread in the Australian part of the forums.

These are early decimal notes of the 1970s.



$10 Govt of Fiji type, cost me only $25 due to stains and wear



Pair of $1 notes, 1970s different signature combinations


$2


$5


$10 1976, notice it says Fiji instead of Government of Fiji.


The $2 and upwards all have the same reverse like this (Except of course different colour and denominations in words).

I will show more in later posts.

Lovely adds!

-apparently so do many others. I just saw a GEM example fetch nearly $2000 USD. Mind you, that's the first time I saw one in such lovely shape.

Speaking of lovely, I've finally completed a Falkland Islands set with these 2 examples:
The 1969 50 Pence (P-10a):



And the 5 Pound (P-9a from 1960):




What I like about these is the simplicity of the back spirograph designs (no numbers/nor text). It took me 3 years to complete this set.