1 Rupia - Republic Pattern, Lisboa mint

Portuguese India's transition from monarchical to republican coinage was administratively tangled for decades after the 1910 revolution. This 1935 Lisboa pattern was struck as part of ongoing efforts to modernize the colonial coinage system, but the designs tested that year were never adopted for circulation — Portuguese India continued issuing coins under older authorizations while Lisbon debated standards. Pattern issues from Casa da Moeda for the colonial territories are consistently underrepresented in specialist literature, and the Gomes reference remains the primary source for distinguishing the handful of known die trials from this series.