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Wheel of 15 Bazarucos - João V Goa Mint
| Issuer | Portuguese India |
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| Year | 1706-1750 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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João V's copper coinage for Goa was minted under a system of local contracting, where the right to produce small-denomination bazarucos was periodically farmed out to private operators — a practice that introduced persistent inconsistencies in flan preparation and striking pressure across the issue's four-decade run. The "Wheel of 15" denomination itself reflects the fractional accounting used in Goa's bazaruco-xerafim system, where 15 bazarucos equaled a specific subdivision within a currency hierarchy that had evolved from pre-Portuguese Hindu and Muslim monetary traditions.
Dies wore quickly on this copper, and the contract system meant no single authority enforced replacement schedules.