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Meia Dobra Pé Terra - Fernando I Lisboa mint
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1367-1369 |
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| Reference(s) | Gomes#Fe 91 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | (+FERnAnDV)S:RE X:PORTVGALI:A |
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Fernando I's brief experiment with the Pé Terra coinage — named for the "foot on ground" style borrowed from contemporary French issues — was abandoned within two years as the king's monetary policy lurched through a series of debasements driven by the financial strain of his three wars against Castile. The Meia Dobra represents half the principal gold unit of this short-lived series, struck at Lisbon during the opening phase of the First Fernandine War.
The type's extreme rarity today owes much to its rapid demonetization and recoinage as Fernando repeatedly reset his monetary system across the 1370s and 1380s.