Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Dez Reis [10] - José I - Goa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
|---|---|
| Year | 1750-1760 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 7.3 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The Portuguese royal arms displayed on a crowned shield, surmounted by a royal crown with five visible points. The escutcheon bears the traditional quinas (five blue shields in cross formation) of the Portuguese coat of arms, rendered in a crude hammered style characteristic of the Goa colonial mint. The shield is set against a plain field with no surrounding legend. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
José I came to the Portuguese throne in 1750, and this Goa issue belongs to the very first years of his reign — a period when the Estado da India was already a diminished operation, its trade dominance long surrendered to the Dutch and English. The Goa mint by this point functioned less as an engine of imperial commerce and more as a local administrative necessity, supplying small copper for the colony's internal economy.
The Gomes reference Jo 28.01 suggests this is the primary variety of the type, though Goa copper from this period is frequently encountered with irregular flans and off-center strikes — a product of the mint's chronic understaffing and deteriorating equipment in the mid-eighteenth century.