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1/2 Tanga - Filipe I Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1580-1589 |
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| Value | 1/2 Tanga = 30 Reais (0.1) |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a standing figure of Saint Thomas the Apostle facing front, holding a long cross or staff in his left hand and a book or palm frond in his right, rendered in a simplified, archaic style characteristic of Goa mint hammered coinage. The figure stands on a plain exergual line within the coin's field. Mint-master initials M and A appear to the left and right of the figure respectively. The design is enclosed within a beaded or dotted border circle. The strike is irregular and the relief shallow, consistent with the hammered technique employed at the Goa mint during the reign of Filipe I. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip I of Portugal — Philip II of Spain — came to the Iberian throne in 1580 following the death of the young King Sebastião at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir and the subsequent extinction of the Aviz male line. The Goa mint continued striking under the new Hapsburg king, though the transition introduced administrative friction between Lisbon and the Estado da India that left documentary records for this period fragmentary. The tanga itself was a denomination rooted in local Indian monetary convention, not Iberian — its subdivision logic answered to the bazaar, not to Lisbon's accounting.