1/2 Pardau - José I Goa mint

正面描述	Crowned laureate bust of King José I facing right, rendered in a somewhat crude hammered style typical of the Goa mint. The effigy is surrounded by a circular legend reading the date and denomination. A beaded border encircles the entire obverse field. The portrait, while stylized, displays characteristic features of colonial Portuguese coinage, including the crown atop the king's head and visible drapery at the shoulder.
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铸币厂	Goa Mint, Portuguese India
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附加信息	The half pardau occupies an awkward position in Portuguese India's monetary history — a denomination kept alive largely by the demands of the local bazaar economy in Goa, where smaller silver fractions remained essential long after Lisbon had rationalized coinage elsewhere in the empire. José I's reign saw repeated administrative pressure on the Goa mint, which operated with chronic shortages of qualified staff and consistent silver supply problems rooted in the declining Estado da India trade revenues of the mid-eighteenth century. The Gomes references Jo.46 and Jo.47 distinguish two die varieties within this emission, a detail worth noting for specialists working the series closely.

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