1/2 Macuta - Pedro V

Aversbeschreibung	Central device comprising the Portuguese royal arms — a quartered shield bearing castles and escutcheons — superimposed upon an armillary sphere, the whole surmounted by a royal crown. The legend encircles the design in the outer field, reading PETRUS.V.D.G.REX.PORT.ET.D.GUINEÆ, separated by pellets, with a finely beaded border running along the coin's periphery.
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Reversschrift	Latin
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Zusätzliche Informationen	Angola's copper coinage of this period was struck in Lisbon for colonial circulation, issued under Pedro V — the young Braganza king who came to the throne at sixteen and died of cholera in 1861, just months after this type's issue window closed. The macuta itself was an accounting unit deeply embedded in the Angolan slave trade economy, its fractions used in transactions the Portuguese crown was, by this point, officially trying to suppress. Copper issues for the African colonies were struck in small quantities relative to metropolitan coinage, and actual circulation was uneven — many pieces remained in coastal trading posts rather than moving inland.