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20 Réis - Carlos I Countermark SHIELD over '20 Réis, Pedro II/Brazil'
| Issuer | Angola |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Currency | Real (18th century-1914) |
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| Obverse lettering | PETRVS . II . D . G . P . REX . (Translation: Pedro II, by the Grace of God, King of Portugal.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Portugal's colonial administration in Angola faced a persistent small-change shortage in the 1890s, and rather than mint new low-denomination coins outright, Lisbon authorized the countermarking of surplus Brazilian 20 Réis pieces — themselves already obsolete following Brazil's 1889 transition to a republic. The host coins had been struck under Pedro II, whose empire had collapsed six years prior, making this a colonial recycling of a deposed monarch's coinage into Portuguese Africa.
The crowned shield countermark applied in 1895 is notoriously shallow on many examples, a consequence of the light silver blanks offering minimal resistance.