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2 Réis - Maria II Colonial Coinage
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda (Lisbon Mint) |
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| Year | 1853 |
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| Currency | Real (1750-1910) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1853 - - 100,000 |
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This issue belongs to a colonial coinage series ordered for Portuguese overseas territories at a time when Lisbon was struggling to maintain consistent copper supplies to its Atlantic and African possessions. Maria II's reign was administratively turbulent — she ruled through a period of liberal-absolutist civil war and its prolonged political fallout, and colonial monetary supply was perpetually deprioritized against domestic pressures. The 1853 date places this coin late in her reign; she died in November of that year during her nineteenth childbirth.