Moneta
Registered: August 2005
Location: Arizona USA
Posts: 2,365
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Now days you hate to mention 'colonization' in relation to Europeans occupying native lands. For historical reasons, that are now too late to undo, we'll have to chalk this up as lessons learned before colonizing Mars. This example features a sailing ship with Portugese Cross with 1532 - 1932 above. This example is hard to find in uncirculated condition and this one is better that the one shown in KM; 596 k were struck.
The land now called Brazil was claimed for the Portuguese Empire on 22 April 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral. The Portuguese encountered indigenous peoples divided into several tribes, most of whom spoke languages of the Tupi–Guarani family, and fought among themselves. Though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization effectively began in 1534, when King John III of Portugal divided the territory into the fifteen private and autonomous Captaincy Colonies of Brazil.
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