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40 Réis - José I Lisbon Mint
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Lisboa |
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| Year | 1753-1774 |
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| Currency | Real (1654-1799) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle surmounted by a royal crown, the denomination expressed as 'XL' in large characters is flanked on either side by floral ornaments. The date appears below the denomination within the same beaded circle. The royal legend encircles the entire design, identifying the issuing monarch. The overall composition is typical of Portuguese colonial copper coinage of the mid-eighteenth century, with a simple but hierarchically organized field. |
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| Mintage | 1753 - KM# 184.1; Bentes 223 - IOSEPHUS (See Comments) - 121,360 1760 - KM# 184.1; Bentes 223 - IOSEPHUS (See Comments) - 216,129 1774 - KM# 184.2; Bentes 224; 225 - JOSEPHUS (See Comments) - 231,336 |
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José I's copper coinage was a direct product of the Marquis of Pombal's sweeping administrative reforms following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which destroyed much of the city and destabilized commerce at every level. Pombal used the reconstruction crisis as political cover to consolidate royal economic authority, and the reorganization of the Casa da Moeda fell squarely within that program.
The three Bentes references reflect documented die varieties across the twenty-one year run — not reissues, but production realities of a mint working continuously through a period of dramatic institutional upheaval.