5 Réis - Maria II

Maria II came to the Portuguese throne through a dynastic civil war — the Liberal Wars — that ended in 1834 with the defeat of her absolutist uncle Miguel. The copper coinage reforms that followed were part of a broader effort to stabilize a monetary system wrecked by years of conflict and Miguel's own debased issues. These 5 réis pieces entered circulation during a period when Portugal was still financially exhausted, and copper small change was desperately needed in everyday commerce.

The Gomes reference places this squarely within the reorganized national mint output under the constitutional monarchy. Dies for this type are known to show variation across the emission years.