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RUPIA - Maria II Big bust, Goa Mint
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda de Goa |
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| Year | 1845-1849 |
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| Currency | Rupia (1706-1880) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Goa Mint |
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Portugal's Indian minting operation at Goa ran chronically short of dies and bullion throughout the 1840s, producing issues across multiple years from the same working dies — which is why this type carries a date range rather than a single year. The "big bust" distinction matters: it separates this emission from the contemporaneous small bust variety, a die difference documented by Gomes that affects collectibility far more than condition alone does.
Maria II's reign was defined by the Liberal Wars that preceded it, and Portuguese India in this period was already an administrative afterthought, with Goa's mint producing rupias primarily to satisfy local trade rather than any coordinated colonial monetary policy.