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1 Bazaruco - Filipe I Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1580-1598 |
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| Currency | Xerafim (1580-1706) |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross pattée occupies the center of the field, dividing it into four quadrants. The cross is surrounded by a border of raised pellets or beads arranged in a circle around the entire periphery of the flan, a common decorative motif on Portuguese Indian bazaruco coinage. The hammered strike renders the cross in low relief with somewhat uneven definition. The simplicity of the reverse design is typical of the small copper bazaruco denomination struck at Goa during the Filipe I period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1580-1598) |
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Filipe I of Portugal — Felipe II of Spain — came to the Portuguese throne through the union of crowns in 1580 following the dynastic crisis triggered by Dom Sebastião's death at Alcácer Quibir. The Goa mint continued operating through this transition largely without interruption, making these bazarucos among the few physical artifacts that document the seamless administrative absorption of Portuguese India into the Iberian Union. The bazaruco itself was a fractional copper currency developed specifically for the Goan market, where small-denomination exchange demands differed sharply from metropolitan Portugal.
Gomes F1 02 is among the more frequently encountered varieties from Filipe I's Indian issues, though the eighteen-year emission window makes precise dating within the reign effectively impossible without die study.