Escudo São Tomé - João III Lisboa mint

正面描述	The royal arms of Portugal displayed on a crowned shield occupying the central field, surmounted by an elaborate Royal crown with floral and foliate finials. The shield features the quintas (five escutcheons arranged in a cross) charged with bezants, and a bordure of castles, rendered in the late Gothic heraldic style characteristic of Manueline coinage. A circular Latin legend runs along the inner border within a beaded outer rim.
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附加信息	João III's reign saw Portugal at the administrative peak of its Atlantic empire, with São Tomé functioning as the critical transshipment hub for enslaved Africans moving toward Brazil and the Caribbean. The island's commercial importance was substantial enough to warrant its own named coinage, struck in Lisbon rather than locally — an unusual arrangement that reflects both the absence of minting infrastructure on the island and the crown's insistence on controlling fineness from the metropole. Gomes lists two closely related varieties under J3 185 and 186.01, distinguished by minor die differences that specialists continue to debate in terms of emission sequence.

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