15 Bazarucos - Maria I Diu mint

Maria I's copper issues for Portuguese India were struck at Diu, one of the three isolated Estado da India enclaves clinging to the northwestern coast after the loss of most Portuguese territorial holdings in the subcontinent. The bazaruco — a denomination so small and locally specific that it had no equivalent in the metropolitan Portuguese system — survived into Maria's reign largely because replacing the entire small-change infrastructure of these enclaves with reis-denominated coinage was administratively impractical.

The Gomes M1 06 attribution places this among the documented types from her reign, a period when the Estado da India administration was increasingly underfunded from Lisbon, then consumed by the Napoleonic crisis after 1807.