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10 Réis - Luiz I Countarmarked over 5 Réis/ Maria I/Azores
| Issuer | Azores |
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| Year | 1871 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MARIA . I DEI . GRATIA |
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Portugal's Azorean administration periodically countermarked existing circulating copper to revalue or re-authorize worn stock rather than fund entirely new strikings. This piece began life as a 5 Réis of Maria I — coins already decades old by 1871 — and was officially doubled in face value by the crowned countermark of Luiz I. The practice was fiscally pragmatic but produced pieces of layered authority: Maria I's original issue beneath the revalidating stamp of a monarch who wouldn't be born for another generation after her reign ended.