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1 Escudo - Republic

Issuer Portuguese India
Year 1958-1959
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In circulation to 15 May 1962
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Smooth
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By 1958, Portuguese India was politically terminal. Nehru's government had cut diplomatic ties with Lisbon in 1955, and Indian paramilitary forces were already conducting low-level operations along the Goa border. Coins were still being struck for a territory that most of the world had already written off. When Indian troops formally annexed Goa, Daman, and Diu in December 1961, circulation of this issue ceased overnight — making the 1958–1959 production run the final escudo coinage for Portuguese India.

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