Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
X Reais 'L-G' - Sebastião I
| Issuer | Portugal |
|---|---|
| Year | 1557-1560 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Réis (Reais) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central field features a large Roman numeral 'X' denoting the denomination of ten réis, flanked by two six-pointed star ornaments in the field. Arranged around the X are groups of pellets representing the quinas of Portugal, disposed in the four quadrants formed by the arms of the numeral. The design is enclosed within a plain inner circle, itself surrounded by a circular Latin legend reading the royal title. The entire composition is executed in the hammered style typical of Portuguese copper coinage of the reign of Sebastião I. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Sebastião I was three years old when these coins were struck in his name. Portugal was governed by his grandmother, Catherine of Austria, acting as regent — a Habsburg by birth and deeply cautious in her administration. The "L-G" privy marks identify the Lisbon mint masters active during this regency window, a detail that places the coin precisely within those transitional years before Sebastião assumed personal rule in 1568.
The X Reais denomination in copper served the lowest register of daily exchange during a period when Portugal's Atlantic trade was generating enormous silver and gold wealth — wealth that rarely reached domestic copper circulation.