1/2 Xerafim - Pedro II Damão mint

Damão (Daman) operated as a secondary mint to Goa throughout the Estado da India's later decades, striking silver in quantities that fluctuated sharply with the port's fortunes against Mughal pressure from the Gujarat interior. Pedro II's reign saw the half xerafim continue a denomination structure inherited from the 16th century, when the xerafim itself was calibrated to compete with locally circulating Mughal rupee fractions in coastal trade settlements.

The Gomes reference P2 09.01 places this among the earlier-documented Damão types, though the 22-year window of the issue means dies were almost certainly replaced multiple times across that span.