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1 Tanga - João IV Goa mint to Ceilão
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1645-1646 |
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| Value | 1 Tanga (1/5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A grate or iron grid depicted centrally over stylized flames rising from below, a symbol associated with the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence and commonly employed on Portuguese colonial coinage of this period. The date is divided by the central device, with numerals appearing on either side in the field. The legend or date numerals are arranged around the central motif within a circular border. |
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João IV's accession in 1640 ended sixty years of Portuguese submission to the Spanish crown under the Iberian Union — a period during which Goa's mints had struck coinage nominally for Philip III and IV of Spain. This tanga belongs to the earliest phase of re-establishing a distinctly Portuguese monetary identity in the Estado da India, struck just five years after the Restoration. The Ceilão designation indicates intended circulation in Ceylon, where Portuguese control was already collapsing under sustained Dutch VOC military pressure; Colombo would fall in 1656.