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1 Tanga - Republic Lisboa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Weight | 6 g |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing the large numeral 1 prominently centered in the upper portion, with the denomination TANGA inscribed in bold capital letters below. The circular legend REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA runs along the upper periphery, separated by small dot stops. The entire design is contained within a beaded border, with the field left unadorned to emphasize the denomination. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Portuguese India's bronze coinage of the late 1940s was produced in Lisbon rather than locally, a logistical reality that would persist until the territory's absorption by India in 1961. By 1947, the political pressure on Goa, Daman, and Diu was already building — India's independence that same year made Lisbon's continued hold on its subcontinental enclaves an immediate diplomatic irritant rather than a distant colonial question.
The KM#24 attribution places this squarely in the post-Estado Novo reorganization of colonial monetary issues under Salazar's government.