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X Réis - Pedro Prince Regent
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1683 |
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| Value | 10 Réis |
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| Obverse description | Crowned Portuguese royal arms at center, consisting of the shield of Portugal bearing five escutcheons in saltire each charged with five bezants, all within an ornate mantle. The crowned shield is flanked by decorative scrollwork. The encircling legend reads PETRVS.D.G.P. PORTVGALIÆ, identifying Pedro as Prince Regent of Portugal by the grace of God. The coin's milled border frames the design. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Pedro governed Portugal as regent from 1668 under his incapacitated brother Afonso VI, whom he had effectively deposed and confined — first to the Azores, then to Sintra — in a palace coup engineered partly through Afonso's own wife. This copper issue dates to that regency period, before Pedro formally assumed the crown as Pedro II in 1683 upon Afonso's death. The timing matters: coins struck under the "Prince Regent" title span a narrow constitutional fiction that lasted fifteen years, making the precise dating of individual issues within that window a persistent problem for catalogers.