Portugal 2 Escudos 50 Centavos banknote 1925 Mouzinho da Silveira
Obverse: Portrait of Mouzinho da Silveira at center and value in ornate guilloche at left and right and in each corner. In the top, the issuer name "BANCO DE PORTUGAL".
Reverse: In the top, the issuer name "BANCO DE PORTUGAL". Coat of Arms of Portugal at center and value in ornate guilloche at left and right.
Printer: Waterlow & Sons Limited, London.
Portugal banknotes - Portugal paper money
1922-1926 "Chapa 1 & 2" Issue
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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.