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2 Macutas - João Prince Regent
| Issuer | Angola |
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| Year | 1815-1819 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | JOANNES·D·G·PORT·P·REGENSE·D·GUINEÆ· |
| Reverse description | The central field displays the denomination MACUTAS 2 in two lines of bold raised lettering, with the numeral 2 prominently positioned below, all enclosed within a decorative inner circle of beads interspersed with quatrefoil floral ornaments. The date appears at the top of the outer legend, which runs around the full periphery of the coin between milled inner and outer borders. The overall composition is clean and typographic, consistent with utilitarian colonial copper coinage of the Portuguese Empire in Africa. |
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Angola's macuta coinage occupied a peculiar administrative space — issued under Portuguese authority but denominated in a unit of account that had evolved from local trade currency, the macuta itself rooted in cloth-based exchange systems predating the colonial mint. By the time João served as Prince Regent (his mother Maria I having been declared incapacitated in 1799), the Angolan copper issues were functionally disconnected from Lisbon's monetary planning, produced in response to chronic small-denomination shortages in Luanda's colonial economy.
The Gomes suffix ".0x" indicates multiple die marriages documented within the type — collectors should verify specific die combination against auction plate coins before attributing.