2 Macutas - Maria I

Angola's macuta coinage of the late 18th century was struck under Portuguese colonial authority in Lisbon, not locally — the colony lacked any minting infrastructure. The 2 macuta denomination occupied an awkward position in the currency hierarchy, bridging a system that mixed Portuguese metropolitan coinage with specially issued colonial pieces designed to circulate alongside brass and copper macutas already in use along the Angolan coast.

Maria I's reign produced relatively few silver colonial issues for Angola, and the 1796 date falls just two years before she was declared mentally incapacitated, with her son João assuming regency in 1799.