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5 Réis - José I Bahia Mint
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda da Bahia (Bahia Mint) |
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| Year | 1762-1769 |
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| Currency | Real (1654-1799) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the Portuguese royal armillary sphere overlaid upon the five-shield escutcheon of the Kingdom of Portugal, the arms rendered in bold relief at the centre of the field. The armillary sphere, a symbol closely associated with Portuguese maritime sovereignty and the Brazilian colonial administration, encircles the shield with its bands and rings. The Bahia mint mark 'B' appears within the central device. A continuous Latin legend encircles the design along the periphery, reading PECVNIA.TOTVM CIRCVMIT.ORBEM, meaning 'Money circulates around the world', separated by ornamental stops. |
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| Mintage | 1762 B - Bentes 249.01 (See Comments) - 1763 B - Bentes 249.02 (See Comments) - 1764 B - Bentes 249.03 (See Comments) - 1766 B - Bentes 249.04 (See Comments) - 1767 B - Bentes 249.05-249.06 (See Comments) - 1768 B - Bentes 249.07-249.08 (See Comments) - 1769 B - Bentes 249.09-249.10 (See Comments) - |
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José I's copper réis issues from Bahia were struck under conditions of chronic supply instability — copper blanks for colonial mints frequently arrived sporadically from Portugal, creating uneven production runs across the decade. The Bahia facility operated under tighter Crown oversight than Lisbon following the Marquis of Pombal's sweeping administrative reforms of the 1750s and 60s, which restructured colonial monetary operations alongside everything else Pombal touched.
Circulation wear on surviving examples tends to be severe; these were the smallest transactional coins in daily use across the Brazilian northeast, changing hands constantly in market trade.