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Numismatic Collection Banco Mello – History and Heritage Miguel Figueira de Faria Porto 1997 141 Pages This is a color-illustrated work, featuring photographs of various coins that were part of the private collection of Afonso Pinto de Magalhães, later acquired by Banco Mello. It encompasses coins that circulated in the territory that would become Portugal, from 225 BC (related to classical Greece) up to the dawn of the First Republic. It includes a historical introduction about the origin of money, its cultural and economic significance, followed by technical descriptions and transcriptions of the inscriptions present on the coins.