5 Réis - José I Bahia Mint

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.