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50 Avos Pattern
| Issuer | Portuguese Timor (1910-2002) |
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| Year | 1945-1951 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Portuguese Timor produced almost no coinage of its own during the early postwar years — the territory relied heavily on circulating issues from metropolitan Portugal and neighboring colonial mints. This pattern was struck at some point between 1945 and 1951 as part of an exploratory series to establish a dedicated Timorese coinage, a project that moved slowly given Lisbon's limited administrative attention to its smallest and most isolated possession. The .650 silver alloy is consistent with transitional colonial issues of the period, as Portugal was progressively debasing its colonial silver across multiple territories simultaneously.
No regular-issue 50 Avos in silver ever reached circulation for Timor. The pattern remained exactly that.