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Vintém 'S' - Sebastião I
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1558-1578 |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Obverse lettering | +PORTVG:ET:ALGARB *S* |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sebastião I inherited the Portuguese throne at age three following the death of his grandfather João III, and his twenty-year reign was defined almost entirely by his obsession with a crusade against the Moors of North Africa. The vintém issues struck under his name financed a kingdom increasingly drained by that ambition — one that ended catastrophically at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578, where Sebastião himself died without an heir, triggering a succession crisis that delivered the Portuguese crown to Philip II of Spain two years later.
The 'S' mintmark identifies Setúbal as the striking facility.