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A Medal to Commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Voyage of Discovery by Bartolomeu Dias Round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Issued for Mossel Bay.
Copper-Nickel. Diameter 37.6 mm. Mass 18.1 gm.
The Portuguese navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, led an expedition in 1488 in an attempt to discover a sea route to India. He was the first European known to have rounded the Cape of Good Hope which he named the Cape of Storms.
"DIAS88" was the catch-name given to the the celebrations in South Africa to mark the quin-centenary.
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