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Tostão - Sebastião I 2nd type, Lisboa mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Portugal |
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| Year | 1570-1578 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the crowned Portuguese royal arms — a quartered shield displaying the escutcheons of Portugal and the castles of the Algarve — set within a plain border. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown of elaborate form. The surrounding circular legend, rendered in Latin capital letters, reads: + SEBASTIANVS : I : REX : PORTVG : ETAL, identifying the issuer as King Sebastian I of Portugal and the Algarves. The design is characteristic of the hammered coinage of the Portuguese royal mint under Sebastian I, exhibiting slightly irregular flan edges typical of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Cross of the Order of Christ — a bold, equal-armed cross with thickened limbs — enclosed within a plain inner circle. The surrounding legend, in Latin capital letters separated by mullets (star stops), reads: *IN*HOC*SIGNO*VINCES, the motto meaning 'In this sign you shall conquer,' an allusion to the Constantinian tradition adopted by the Portuguese military-religious orders. The fields are flat and unadorned, with the cross occupying nearly the full inner circle. The flan exhibits the slight irregularity and surface texture characteristic of hand-hammered silver coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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