2011 Portugal €2.5 Coin Issue "Capelo & Ivens"

• Mint: Portuguese Mint (INCM)
• Denomination: €2.5
• Quality: Proof/UNC
• Issue limit: 9,000/100,000
• Alloy: 92.5% Silver/Base Metal
• Artist: Baiba Šime
• Diameter: 28.00 mm
• Weight: 12/10 grams
• Box/Capsule: Proof only
• Certificate: Proof only

Additional Information

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This issue is the Portuguese contribution to the pan-European eurostar program for 2011, and honors explorers Hermenegildo Capelo & Roberto Ivens.

Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo was born in Palmela, Portugal, in 1841, and died in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1917. He was an officer in the Portuguese Navy and a Portuguese explorer, helping to chart territory between Angola and Mozambique in the southern part of Central Africa that was unknown to Europeans in the 1870s and 1880s. Alongside Roberto Ivens, he is famous for being the first European to cross Central Africa from coast to coast between Angola and Mozambique.