10 Escudos Prova

Prova pieces from Casa da Moeda in this period were produced in extremely limited numbers for official approval — typically fewer than a dozen examples — before the type was either adopted or rejected for circulation. The 1953 10 Escudos prova precedes the circulation issue of the same year, which itself was struck during Salazar's Estado Novo regime at a moment when Portugal was quietly navigating Cold War-era economic pressures while maintaining formal neutrality.