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12 Vinténs - Maria I
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1786-1799 |
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| Currency | Real (1517-1835) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1786 - Gomes#M1 15.01 (Low crown) - 1788 - Gomes#M1 15.02 (Low crown) - 6,405 1791 - Gomes#M1 16.01 (High crown) - 5,733 1792 - Gomes#M1 16.02 (High crown - 6,218 1793 - Gomes#M1 15.03 to 15.05 (Low crown) - 95,586 1793 - Gomes#M1 16.03 to 16.04 (High crown - 1794 - Gomes#M1 16.05 (High crown - 19,286 1798 - Gomes#M1 15.06 to 15.07 (Low crown) - 1798 - Gomes#M1 16.06 (High crown - 1799 - Gomes#M1 15.08 (Low crown) - 36,099 1799 - Gomes#M1 16.07 to 16.08 (High crown - |
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The 12 vintém denomination — equal to 240 réis — was among the workhorses of late 18th-century Portuguese commerce, circulating heavily through Lisbon's markets and across the Atlantic trade routes connecting Portugal to Brazil. Maria I's reign began under promising circumstances in 1777 following her father José I's death, but by the mid-1790s she had descended into severe religious melancholia and eventual psychosis, with her son João effectively assuming governing authority by 1799 — the year this type ceases.
Gomes distinguishes two varieties across this run, M1 15 and M1 16, differentiated by die details accumulated over a thirteen-year production span at the Lisbon mint.