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11/2 Réis - Hybrid Afonso VI/João IV ?? Pattern ??
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1656-1667 |
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| Reference(s) | Gomes#A6 01.01 |
| Obverse description | Obverse die taken from a Tostão of Afonso VI (Gomes A6 22 type). Central field features the crowned Portuguese royal arms — the quartered shield bearing the five quinas (inescutcheons) of Portugal and the castle bordure of Castile — surmounted by a royal crown. The armorial design is set within a beaded or rope inner circle. The peripheral legend, partially legible on this hammered and worn specimen, reads ALPHONSVS VI DG REX POR in Latin capitals, identifying the issuer as King Afonso VI of Portugal. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "hybrid" designation here reflects a genuinely strange transitional moment: Afonso VI nominally assumed the Portuguese throne in 1656 at age thirteen, but effective power remained contested, first under his mother Luísa de Gusmão as regent and later under the Count of Castelo Melhor. Coins pairing Afonso's reign attribution with João IV's dies were not an oversight — they were the product of a mint still working through inherited dies while royal authority itself was unresolved. The question marks in the pattern attribution remain unresolved in the literature, and Gomes catalogues this as a unique or near-unique type.