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1 Tanga - Filipe I Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1580-1589 |
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| Value | 1 Tanga = 60 Reais (1/5) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1580-1589) G-A - F1 08.01 (T-A like the picture) - ND (1580-1589) G-A - F1 08.02 (T-A in the same line) - |
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Philip I of Portugal was simultaneously Philip II of Spain — the same monarch who had absorbed the Portuguese crown following the death of Sebastian I at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578, leaving no direct heir. Goa's mint continued operating under this union largely undisturbed, producing tangas that technically bore the name of a Spanish Habsburg king while circulating through a Portuguese colonial trading network stretching from Hormuz to Macau.
The tanga itself was a denomination rooted in local Indian monetary custom rather than Iberian tradition, adapted by the Portuguese to facilitate trade in a market where familiar units of account already existed.