Mozambique 1952 20 escudos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

Mozambique in 1942, from Hammond's atlas

This issue, minted in Lisbon for the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, is from a type issued 1952, 1955 and 1960 in fairly large numbers. It is accompanied by a bronze fifty centavos, escudo and copper-nickel 2½ escudos and silver five and ten escudos. In the 1960's, nationalists in Mozambique began their agitation for independence, triggering a multifactional war that continued after the Portuguese withdrew in 1975.

Recorded mintage: 1,004,000.

Specification: 10 g, 0.720 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 80.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.

Link to:

• 1950 20 centavos
• 1950 escudo
• 1950 2½ escudos
• 1951 50 centavos
• 1953 50 centavos
• 1953 escudo
• 1954 2½ escudos
• Coins and currency dated 1952