60 Réis - Tanga - Maria II Damão Mint

The Damão mint operated sporadically under Portuguese administration on India's northwest coast, producing copper coinages that circulated alongside a chaotic mix of local and colonial issues. The tanga denomination — rooted in the monetary systems of the Estado da India rather than metropolitan Portuguese accounting — made this issue functionally distinct from anything struck in Lisbon. Maria II had ascended the throne only after a protracted civil war against her absolutist uncle Miguel, concluded in 1834, and her early reign was marked by constitutional instability that left colonial mints operating with considerable autonomy.