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4 Macutas - Pedro V Countermark CROWNED SHIELD over '2 Macutas, João Prince'
| Issuer | Portuguese Colonial Administration (Angola) |
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| Year | 1853 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | JOANNES·D·G·PORT·P·REGENSE·D·GUINEÆ· |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Angola's chronic shortage of small coinage in the mid-nineteenth century forced administrators into improvised solutions. This piece is a countermarked 2 Macutas of João, Prince Regent — itself already a colonial makeshift — restruck under Pedro V to double its face value to 4 Macutas. The countermark effectively recycled existing copper rather than waiting on fresh shipments from Lisbon, a common enough practice in Portuguese Africa but rarely executed with such a direct denomination doubling.
Pedro V died of cholera in 1861, aged 24, making his Angolan colonial issues a compressed series.