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640 Réis - Maria I Bahia Mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Portugal |
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| Year | 1799-1805 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#231, Bentes#290 |
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| Obverse lettering | MARIA • I • D • G • PORT • REGINA • ET • BRAS • D • 1799 640 (Translation: Maria I, by the Grace of God, Queen of Portugal and Lady of Brazil.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Maria I's cognitive decline, well-documented by the late 1790s, left Portugal effectively governed by her son João as Prince Regent from 1799 onward — the very year this Bahia issue opens. The colonial Brazilian mints continued striking in her name throughout, a bureaucratic inertia that persisted until her death in 1816 despite her having no meaningful executive role for nearly two decades.
The Bahia mint had a chronic problem with planchet preparation during this period, and survivors from this series frequently show adjustment marks — file striations made by mint workers reducing overweight blanks to specification before striking.