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Features a map of South America with the Treaty of Tordesillas line displayed, as well as the Equator. The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. That line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese) and the islands entered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Castile and León), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antillia (Cuba and Hispaniola).
The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile, modifying an earlier division proposed by Pope Alexander VI. The treaty was signed by Spain, 2 July 1494, and by Portugal, 5 September 1494. [Wikipedia]
The reverse shows the Lusinian Cross, a device associated with the Lusignan Family of France, Armenia, The Knights Templar, and Portugal.
Obverse design by Walter R. Toledo; Reverse design w/Lusinian Cross by Basilio Nunes. This coin, fo copper-nickel had 416k struck in 1932.
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