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1 Macuta - João Prince Regent
| Issuer | Kingdom of Portugal (for Angola) |
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| Year | 1814-1819 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | JOANNES·D·G·PORT·P·REGENSE·D·GUINEÆ· |
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Angola's macuta coinage occupied a strange administrative position — technically Portuguese colonial issue but struck to a currency system inherited from older Central African trade conventions, where the macuta (or makuta) had long functioned as an indigenous unit of account before European authorities formalized it in copper. The João VI issues of this period were struck while the royal court was still seated in Rio de Janeiro, having fled Napoleon's 1807 invasion of Lisbon, meaning the administrative authority behind this coin resided on a different continent than either the mint or the intended circulation.