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Two unique items at the Silgueiros Ethnographic Museum. António Lopes Pires recounts how he requested the monocle from the marshal and how, through friends of friends, the royal binoculars came into his possession.
It was not discovered in an archaeological excavation, but in a wooden chest of gifts from a grandfather to his grandson. The coin was used to pay for a bus ticket in the 1950s and is now on display in a museum.
