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1 Dinheiro - Sebastião I Ship
| Issuer | Portuguese Malacca |
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| Year | 1558-1578 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The Portuguese royal arms displayed on a large escutcheon, featuring the quinas (five shields arranged in a cross) at center, surrounded by the bordure of castles, the whole surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is rendered in a bold, somewhat crude local style characteristic of colonial Malaccan coinage, occupying nearly the full field of the flan with no legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sebastião I never set foot in Malacca, but his reign oversaw the Portuguese Estado da India at perhaps its most administratively strained — the same decades that saw Aceh pressing hard against the Malaccan straits and the spice trade routes increasingly contested. The dinheiro was the workhorse of petty commerce in the port, used in transactions too small for silver, and calin — the local tin-lead alloy sourced from the Malay peninsula itself — made it cheap enough to produce in volume without importing metal.
Sebastião died at Alcácer Quibir in 1578, the same year this type's production ceased.