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X Réis '1/2 vintém' - Pedro Prince Regent
| Issuer | Portuguese Monarchy |
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| Year | 1672-1677 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | PETRVS D G R PORTV .X. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "meio vintém" was among the smallest silver coins in regular circulation anywhere in seventeenth-century Europe — at under half a gram, it was notoriously easy to lose, clip, and counterfeit. Pedro governed as regent from 1668 following the forced abdication of his brother Afonso VI, whose incapacity he engineered through a combination of political maneuvering and, ultimately, confinement. The coin's five-year window reflects the regency period precisely, before Pedro assumed the throne outright as Pedro II in 1683.