Vintem - Filipe III

Philip III of Portugal is Philip IV of Spain — the same king, two crowns, one reign that stretched across the Iberian Union's final decades before Portugal broke free in the Restoration of 1640. These vintems were struck under that dual monarchy, a period when Portuguese coinage nominally maintained its own standards and denominations while the crown's financial priorities were overwhelmingly Castilian. The vintem, worth 20 reais, was the workhorse of small retail transactions throughout the empire.

Production ceased abruptly when the Duke of Braganza was acclaimed João IV on December 1, 1640.