100 Centavos Boaventura de Manufahi

Boaventura de Manufahi led the last major indigenous uprising against Portuguese colonial rule in Timor, a rebellion that lasted from 1911 to 1912 and required Portugal to deploy substantial military reinforcements from Mozambique and Goa to suppress it. His defeat effectively ended large-scale armed resistance to Portuguese authority for decades. Timor-Leste's decision to commemorate him on circulating coinage — issued by a central bank established only after independence in 2002 — reflects a deliberate effort to anchor national identity in pre-occupation resistance rather than in the independence struggle of the 1970s alone.