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2 Bazarucos - Filipe I Dio mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1580-1598 |
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| Currency | Xerafim (1580-1706) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a large, boldly struck Gothic capital letter 'F', standing for Filipe (Philip I of Portugal), rendered in a simple incuse style characteristic of hammered copper coinage of Portuguese India. The letter occupies nearly the entire flan, with no surrounding legend. The coin exhibits an irregular, slightly uneven flan typical of hand-struck colonial issues of the late sixteenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | F |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing a large capital letter 'R', flanked by the letters 'D' to the left and 'O' to the right, together forming the mint and denomination attribution 'D R O' — referencing the Diu mint. The bold, simply rendered characters are characteristic of the rudimentary hammered technique employed for Portuguese colonial copper coinage in India. The flan is irregular and the strike typical of the period. |
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