Catalog
10 Escudos
| Issuer | Portuguese Guinea (1910-1975) |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Portuguese armillary sphere overlaid with the national coat of arms, displaying five small shields arranged in a cross pattern and a border of seven castles, all set within a beaded inner circle. Above the central device, the crowned mural crown of Portugal with flanking towers surmounts the shield. The territory name GUINÉ arcs along the upper legend in large Latin capital letters, while the denomination 10$00 is inscribed in the lower field. Six small floral ornaments decorate the field on either side of the central device, and a beaded border runs along the coin's rim. |
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| Mintage | 1952 - - 1,200,000 |
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Portuguese Guinea's colonial coinage was administered through the Junta da Moeda in Lisbon, and this 1952 issue was struck at the Casa da Moeda during a period when Portugal's overseas territories were officially reclassified as "provinces" under Salazar's Estado Novo — a deliberate constitutional maneuver designed to insulate the empire from post-war decolonization pressure at the United Nations.