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Peça - Maria I Pattern
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | The Portuguese royal arms displayed at centre: the oval escutcheon bearing the quinas (five blue escutcheons each charged with five white bezants in saltire), surrounded by the bordure of seven castles, the entire composition set within a finely engine-turned oval frame. The shield is surmounted by the Portuguese royal crown topped with a cross. The date 1800 appears in the exergue below the arms, with no additional legend in the field. |
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| Mint | Casa da Moeda de Lisboa |
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Pattern coinage under Maria I occupied an awkward institutional moment: the queen had been declared mentally incapacitated in 1799, with her son João acting as Prince Regent, yet dies were still being prepared in her name as the machinery of the Lisbon mint worked through the administrative transition. This copper peça pattern was never approved for circulation, and surviving examples almost certainly remained within the mint itself.
The KM#Pn27 attribution places it among a cluster of experimental strikes from this period, most of which exist in single-digit quantities.