11/2 Réis - Hybrid Afonso VI/João IV ?? Pattern ??

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.