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4 Macutas - Maria I and Pedro III
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda (Lisbon Mint) |
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| Year | 1783-1784 |
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| Currency | Real (18th century-1914) |
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| Reverse lettering | AFRICA·PORTUGUEZA·1784 MACUTAS 4 (Translation: Portuguese Africa) |
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| Mint | Lisbon Mint |
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Portugal's Angolan coinage of the 1780s emerged from a colonial monetary system perpetually strangled by a shortage of small change. The macuta denominations were struck specifically for Angola, where Brazilian gold and Portuguese silver rarely penetrated trade at the village level. This issue bears the joint authority of Maria I and her uncle-husband Pedro III, who co-ruled from 1777 until Pedro's death in 1786 — one of the stranger dynastic arrangements in Braganza history.
The Gomes reference suffix ".0x" indicates this piece falls within a small cluster of die variants not yet fully catalogued, a not uncommon situation for provincial colonial issues where production records from the Lisbon Mint are fragmentary.