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3 Réis 'Daguini' - João VI Big armillary sphere - Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1816-1826 |
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| Currency | Rupia (1706-1880) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a large armillary sphere rendered in low relief, characteristic of the Portuguese colonial coinage issued under João VI for the Goa mint. The sphere, a traditional Portuguese royal emblem, dominates the field and is shown with its principal rings and bands in a simplified, crudely executed hammered style. The design is heavily worn and the flan is irregular, consistent with the primitive striking methods employed at the Goa mint during this period. No peripheral legend is present on this side. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 Reis |
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The "Daguini" nickname — a corruption of the Portuguese "da guiné" — reflects how thoroughly West African monetary vocabulary had embedded itself into India's colonial economy by the early nineteenth century. João VI authorized this copper issue for Goa while ruling from Rio de Janeiro, having relocated the entire Portuguese court to Brazil in 1807 to avoid Napoleon's invasion. His administrators in Goa were essentially managing a distant outpost of a government that was itself in exile.
The Goa mint operated with chronic supply inconsistencies throughout this period, and copper strikings for the Indian territories were frequently irregular in both output and quality — not as an anomaly but as the norm for a decade.