Official Bronze Medal 1979 Dia de Camões, de Portugal e das Comunidades by Helder Battista.
This commemorates not only the poet Camões but also Portugal and its diaspora in a national and international Portugal Day. Camões published his Lusiadas a chronicle of the Portuguese in 1572 and is likened to Shakespeare.
On one side a sailor in great coat waving, with bale
On the other, an oak tree, one of whose branches has been cut but it is still growing.
90mm. bronze numbered 1277 on edge. Heavy (400g)
