1/2 Macuta - Maria II

Descrizione del dritto	Central device depicting the Portuguese royal arms — a quartered shield bearing castles and escutcheons — superimposed upon an armillary sphere, the whole surmounted by a royal crown. The crowned arms are rendered in high relief against a flat field. The circumferential legend, separated by pellets, reads MARIA.II.D.G.REGINA.PORTUG.ET.D.GUINEAE., running clockwise around the periphery within a beaded border.
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Legenda del dritto	MARIA.II.D.G.REGINA.PORTUG.ET.D.GUINEAE.
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Zecca	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Angola's copper fractional issues of this period were struck in Lisbon under direct Portuguese crown authority, part of a broader effort to stabilize colonial exchange in a region where commodity money — cloth, iron bars, and the nzimbu shell — had long competed with official coinage. Maria II's reign was itself politically turbulent; she had been restored to the throne only after a civil war against her absolutist uncle Miguel, and her government's administrative reach into Angola remained contested throughout the 1840s. The six-year span of this issue likely reflects production across multiple die pairs rather than continuous mintage.

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