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3 Reais 'III-L' - Sebastião I
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1557-1578 |
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| Currency | Real (1517-1835) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PORTVG ET ALGARB REX AFFRIC SEBAS / TIA / NVS / *I* |
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Sebastião I inherited the Portuguese throne at age three in 1557 and was declared of age to rule in 1568, yet his reign is defined almost entirely by its catastrophic end — the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578, where he led a disastrously under-resourced crusade into Morocco, died without an heir, and extinguished the House of Aviz. The resulting succession crisis delivered Portugal into the Spanish orbit under Philip II by 1580.
This copper issue circulated through those final unstable decades. The Gomes Se.20 attribution places it within a broader coinage reform Sebastião undertook to standardize the fractional copper currency that his predecessors had left in chronic disorder.