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30 Réis - Maria I and Pedro III Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1784 |
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| Currency | Rupia (1706-1880) |
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| Obverse description | Jugate busts of Queen Maria I and King Pedro III facing right, both wearing laurel wreaths, with the date 1784 inscribed in the lower field. The legend GOA appears to the left and the denomination 30 R to the right, flanking the royal portraits. The design is characteristic of the hammered coinage produced at the Goa mint during the joint reign, with somewhat crude, high-relief portraiture typical of colonial Portuguese issues. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Maria I ruled jointly with her husband Pedro III from 1777 until his death in 1786, making the window for dual-name coinage from Portuguese India quite narrow. The Goa mint, operating under chronic supply constraints throughout the eighteenth century, produced this denomination in extremely small flans — a consequence of both limited silver availability and local demand for low-value fractional coinage suited to retail trade in the coastal markets of the Estado da India.
At 0.6 grams, survival in any collectible state is largely a matter of luck.