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1/2 Tostão - Pedro II King's crown, Lisbon mint
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1686-1706 |
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| Currency | Real (1517-1835) |
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| Reverse lettering | +IN·HOC·SIGNO·VINCES |
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| Mintage | ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 26.01 to 26.07 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 27.01 to 27.06 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 28.01 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 29.01 to 29.02 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 30.01 to 30.04 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 31.01 - ND (1686-1706) - Gomes#P2 32.01 to 32.02 - |
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Pedro II's long reign coincided with Portugal's difficult recovery from the wars of Restoration against Spain, and the crown's chronic silver shortages meant small-denomination coinage was repeatedly debased, recoined, and restruck across multiple mint sessions. The proliferation of Gomes varieties here — six distinct catalog numbers — reflects not collector splitting but genuine successive authorizations, each responding to fiscal pressure or bullion availability rather than any planned reform.
The Lisbon mint's output during this period was also complicated by competition from colonial silver flowing through Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, which often bypassed metropolitan coinage entirely.