Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Soldo - Manuel I
| Issuer | Portuguese Malacca |
|---|---|
| Year | 1511-1521 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Gomes#E1 15.0x |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | NOSTRAE SPES VNICA (Translation: Our only hope) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Malacca fell to Afonso de Albuquerque in July 1511, and within months the Portuguese were operating the mint that the Sultanate itself had run — retooling local infrastructure rather than importing European minting practice wholesale. The soldo issued under Manuel I was struck in calin, the tin-lead alloy that had been the monetary material of Southeast Asian petty commerce long before any Portuguese ship entered the Strait. Using it was a deliberate concession to local market expectations, not a metallurgical compromise.
Gomes E1 15.0x places this among the earliest Portuguese colonial issues anywhere in Asia.