4 Bazarucos - João III Cochim mint

João III inherited a network of Estado da India mints operating under considerable autonomy, and the Cochim (Cochin) facility was among the most productive for base-metal coinage intended for local market transactions — denominations that Portuguese merchants and administrators needed in volume but Lisbon rarely bothered to regulate closely. The bazaruco was essentially a concession to the existing monetary ecology of the Malabar Coast, where small copper fractions had circulated for generations before the Portuguese arrived.

The Cochim mint's output for this reign spans a fourteen-year window and shows meaningful variation in fabric and die execution across that period.