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75 Réis - João VI Minas Gerais
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Vila Rica (Minas Gerais Mint) |
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| Year | 1818-1821 |
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| Currency | Real (1799-1942) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | JOANNES.VI.D.G.PORT.BRAS.ET.ALG.REX 75 1818 M (Translation: João VI, King of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves, by the Grace of God.) |
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The Vila Rica mint — operating out of what is now Ouro Preto — struck these copper pieces during a period of profound administrative awkwardness: João VI was simultaneously King of Portugal and ruler of Brazil following the Braganza court's flight from Lisbon in 1807, making Brazil the only New World colony to ever host a reigning European monarch. The Minas Gerais issues were regional stopgap coinage, produced to address chronic small-denomination shortages in the interior mining districts well away from the coastal mints at Rio and Bahia.
Die alignment and striking quality vary considerably across the 1818–1821 run, a predictable consequence of the Vila Rica facility working with aging equipment and irregular copper supply.