6 Escudos

Portuguese Timor struck silver coinage only sporadically, and the 1958 6 Escudos belongs to a period when Lisbon was making deliberate efforts to modernize the territory's currency infrastructure — partly as a counter to growing international scrutiny of Portugal's colonial holdings under the Salazar regime. The UN had been pressing Portugal since the early 1950s to submit information on its "non-self-governing territories," which Lisbon flatly refused, insisting Timor and its other possessions were overseas provinces, not colonies.

KM#15 is notably one of the few silver denominations produced specifically for Timorese circulation rather than as a metropolitan issue redistributed eastward.