3 Réis - Maria II Pattern, Damão Mint

Damão (Daman) was the smallest and most administratively neglected of Portugal's three Indian enclaves, and its brief flirtation with a local mint in the 1830s produced almost nothing that entered circulation. This piece is catalogued by Gomes as E1 — the first entry in the pattern series — suggesting it was among the earliest trial strikes produced under Maria II following the Liberal victory in the Portuguese Civil War of 1832–34, when the new constitutional government moved to regularize colonial coinage across its overseas territories. The effort at Damão was largely abandoned before it bore fruit.