Portuguese India 1871 10 reis
This specimen was lot 2804 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $53.55. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGUESE INDIA: Luiz I, 1861-1889, AE 10 reis, 1871, light porosity, one-year type, VF to EF." This specimen is a one year type struck for the Portuguese colonies in India. Once extensive, Portuguese dominions had dwindled by the 1800's to the enclaves of Goa, Diu and Damao. In 1869 the mint at Goa, which had produced hammered coinage, was closed. Issues up to 1952 were based on the rupee (1 rupia = 16 tanga, 1 tanga = 60 réis) and struck at the British controlled mints of Bombay and Calcutta. The year 1871 saw the only complete series of copper minted, including the half tanga (KM 305), quarter tanga (KM 304), tanga (KM 306), 5 réis (KM 302) and 3 réis (KM 301).
Recorded mintage: 51,000.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: KM-303.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th 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.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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- Goa 1869 rupia
- 1871 3 réis = 1/20 tanga
- 1871 ¼ tanga
- 1871 ½ tanga = 30 réis
- 1871 tanga = 60 réis
- 1881 rupia
- 1882 meia rupia
- 1886 ¼ tanga
- Coins and currency dated 1871