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5 Réis - João V Goa mint
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Goa |
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| Year | 1711 |
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| Reference(s) | Gomes#J5 45 |
| Obverse description | Royal cypher 'IV' (Ioannes V, King John V of Portugal) prominently displayed in large Roman numerals at center, with the date 1711 inscribed below in the field. A border of evenly spaced pellets encircles the design, a characteristic feature of hammered Portuguese colonial coinage from the Goa mint. |
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| Mintage | 1711 |
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João V came to the throne in 1706 inheriting a Estado da India in slow structural decline — Goa's commercial dominance already undermined by the Dutch, its mint increasingly tasked with supplying small-denomination copper for local transactions that Portuguese silver wouldn't reach. The Goa mint had an irregular operating history, frequently suspended when copper supply or royal authorization lapsed, making output from any single year difficult to quantify with confidence.
The Gomes reference places this firmly in the early João V Goan series, a group notorious among collectors for casting and flan irregularities endemic to the mint's equipment and local production methods.