1/2 Patacão - Filipe III Goa mint

Felipe III of Portugal — Felipe IV of Spain — issued this coin during the period of Iberian Union, when the Portuguese and Spanish crowns were held simultaneously by the Habsburg dynasty. Goa's mint operated under chronic silver supply constraints throughout this period, dependent on trade flows that were increasingly disrupted by Dutch aggression in the Indian Ocean. The VOC had been systematically attacking Portuguese shipping and coastal settlements since the early seventeenth century, and the pressures on Estado da India's finances were acute by 1630.

Gomes F3 28 is among the scarcer entries in the Filipe III Goa sequence.