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5 Réis - Maria I
| Issuer | Azores |
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| Year | 1795-1798 |
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| Currency | Real (mechanical coinage, 1750-1830) |
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| Obverse lettering | MARIA . I DEI . GRATIA |
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| Reverse lettering | PORTUGALIÆ ET ALGARBIORUM REGINA 5/1797 |
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The Azorean coinage of Maria I emerged from a practical problem: the islands' geographic isolation meant that metropolitan Portuguese copper rarely arrived in sufficient quantity, leaving local commerce chronically short of small change. A dedicated colonial issue was authorized to fill the gap. These pieces circulated hard on the islands and survivors in any decent state of preservation are genuinely scarce — not rare by catalog designation, but rare in practice.