50 Reis - Pedro V

Pedro V came to the throne in 1853 at age sixteen and died in 1861, almost certainly of typhoid fever, aged just twenty-four. His reign was short enough that the entire 50 Reis series in his name was produced within a narrow window, and production figures across the type were modest. The Lisbon mint struck these under persistent pressure to modernize the coinage system, a process that would accelerate sharply under Luís I.

The .917 fineness places this squarely within Portugal's pre-decimal silver standard, abandoned when the country fully adopted the real-denominated decimal system in the reforms that followed shortly after Pedro's death.