Diogo de Silves Portugal Geocoin

To travel trough the world and meet as many caches and cachers as possible! *Please no seldom visited caches and take some pictures of my journey*

My current mission  is to bring BAD LUCK AND DEATH to the one that has stollen me, to his family and friends and all who see´s me and doesn´t release me!

Diogo de Silves, piloto português que avistou a Ilha de Santa Maria, e muito provavelmente, a Ilha de São Miguel, no ano de 1427, no retorno de uma viagem à Ilha da Madeira. Sobre a identidade desta personagem pouco mais se sabe. Como na época geralmente os apelidos eram toponímicos, a referência a Silves faria supôr que fosse natural daquela cidade algarvia, o que faz sentido se se pensar que eram algarvios muitos dos primeiros mareantes dos descobrimentos. Esta foi a leitura que fez o historiador Damião Peres da carta de 1439 do catalão Gabriel de Valsequa, à falta de mais dados convincentes; outros porém, opinaram que o nome pudesse ser Sines ou outras variantes. Contudo, prevaleceu a tese de Peres até aos nossos dias.
Baptizar esta moeda como Diogo de Silves é tambem uma homenagem á minha terra pois nasci em Portimão que dista apenas 17kms de Silves e os meus pais são tambêm de Silves.

Diogo de Silves (Diogo from Silves) was a Portuguese Sailor that discovered the Santa Maria Island and probably the São Miguel Island in the Azores in the year 1427 when he was returning from a trip to the Madeira Island. About the identity of this character little is known. At that time, last names were normally the place where people were born, so, we supose that he would have been born in this town in Algarve (South of Portugal), what makes sense since most of the Portuguese ships of the discoveries set sail from Sagres in the Algarve and most of the sailors were also from the Algarve.
Naming this coin after Diogo de Silves is also an hommage to my homeland since i was born in Portimão wich is just 17 kms from Silves and my parents are also from Silves.