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1/2 Macuta - Maria I
| Issuer | Portuguese Crown |
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| Year | 1789 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1789 - - 125,000 |
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Maria I's copper coinage for Angola was a deliberate reassertion of Portuguese authority over the region's monetary supply, which had long been muddled by the circulation of improvised and foreign currencies along the slave trade routes. The macuta itself was a unit derived from local trading practice, essentially absorbed into the colonial coinage system rather than imposed from outside it.
KM#30 is known to show significant variation in planchet quality — a consequence of copper supply inconsistencies at the Lisbon mint rather than any striking anomaly.