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São Vicente - João III Lisboa mint
| Issuer | Portuguese Monarchy |
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| Year | 1555-1557 |
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| Value | 1 São Vicente (1000) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned Portuguese royal arms — a shield bearing five escutcheons arranged in a quincunx, each charged with five roundels (quinas), enclosed within a bordure of seven castles — rendered in high relief in the hammered style characteristic of mid-16th-century Portuguese coinage. Four ornate cross-fleury symbols are distributed symmetrically in the angles surrounding the shield, flanked by additional decorative elements. A royal crown surmounts the shield at the top of the field. The circular Latin legend runs along the coin's periphery, reading IOANES : III : RE : PORTV : ET : AL, identifying King João III of Portugal. |
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| Obverse lettering | IOANES : III : RE : PORTV : ET : AL |
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The São Vicente was introduced under João III as Portugal's premier gold denomination during a period when Lisbon's Casa da Moeda was processing extraordinary volumes of bullion arriving from Estado da India trade routes. João III's reign saw a deliberate push to standardize the gold coinage against the cruzado system, and the São Vicente — named for the patron saint of Lisbon — occupied a specific tariff position within that framework. The Gomes 187 reference distinguishes this Lisboa emission from provincial strikes of the same type, a distinction that matters considerably for attribution.