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1 Manoel - Manuel I Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India (Casa da Moeda de Goa) |
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| Year | 1510-1521 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#8, Gomes#E1 14.01 |
| Obverse description | Central design featuring a plain cross pattée, its four arms radiating outward to divide the field into four equal quadrants, all enclosed within a plain inner circle. The border consists of a continuous beaded (granulated) ring surrounding the entire design. No legend is present. The hammered flan exhibits an irregular, slightly uneven surface consistent with early 16th-century colonial Portuguese coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Manuel I authorized the Goa mint shortly after Afonso de Albuquerque seized the city from the Bijapur Sultanate in 1510 — one of the earliest European minting operations established in Asia. The Casa da Moeda de Goa was producing coinage almost immediately, a deliberate assertion of Portuguese authority over a trade entrepôt that controlled much of the Arabian Sea spice traffic.
These early Goan gold issues circulated alongside a bewildering mix of local sultanate coinage, and die workmanship varies considerably across the production run — the Goa mint was still establishing its craftsmen and infrastructure during Manuel's reign.