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!
PARDAU DE GOA - Maria II
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
|---|---|
| Year | 1851 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Bare-headed effigy of Queen Maria II facing right, with hair arranged in an elaborate chignon at the nape of the neck, rendered in fine neoclassical style. The truncation of the neck is plain and unadorned. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait within a toothed border: MARIA II PORTUG ET ALGARB REGINA, with the date 1851 appearing at the base of the design below the bust. |
|---|---|
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1851 GOA |
| Additional information |
The Pardau was a denomination deeply embedded in Goa's commercial economy long before Portuguese mints standardized it — the name itself derives from the local term for a pagoda coin, absorbed into Luso-Indian monetary practice over centuries of trade. By Maria II's reign, Goa's mint was producing silver coinage under increasingly difficult administrative conditions, as Lisbon's grip on its Estado da India territories had been weakened by liberal constitutional upheaval at home throughout the 1830s and 1840s. This 1851 issue is among the final pardau strikings before the denomination was rationalized out of the colonial currency system in the later nineteenth century.